Beyond the Iraq War; the promises, pitfalls and perils of external interventionism.9781845426323 Beyond the Iraq War Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq War or Second Persian Gulf War Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. ; the promises, pitfalls and perils of external interventionism in·ter·ven·tion·ism n. The policy or practice of intervening, especially: a. The policy of intervening in the affairs of another sovereign state. b. . Ed. by Michael Heazle and Iyanatul Islam. Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim. Publishing 2006 190 pages $95.00 Hardcover E183 Using the US invasion and occupation of Iraq as the occasion to examine the "new [neoliberal ne·o·lib·er·al·ism n. A political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth. ne ] interventionism" and the justifications upon which it is based, ten papers presented by Heazle (a research fellow with the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith U., Australia) and Islam (international business, Griffith U.) explore the causes and ramifications ramifications npl → Auswirkungen pl of the US-led mission of "societal transformation through external intervention." The opening chapters describe the Iraq war as part of larger trend in which Western governments are becoming increasingly intolerant of countries that do not fit their neoliberal , democratic market norms and examine the foreign policy elite debates within the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. that the Iraq war has brought into stark relief. The next three chapters explore the dilemmas of neoliberal interventionism in practice as they have been revealed in Iraq. Two chapters then discuss the Iraq war in terms of mutual (mis)perceptions between the West and the overlapping Arab and Islamic worlds followed by a final pair of contributions discussing economic questions, in particular the "curious" global implications of Iraq's sovereign debt. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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