Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States write by Bamo Nouri. This book was released on 2021-09-09. Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book locates US elites as members of corporate elite networks and drivers of corporate elite interests, arguing that studying the social sources of US power plays an important part in understanding the nature of their decisions in US foreign policy. Exploring the decisions taken by American elites on the Iraq War, the author argues that the decisions and agendas US elites pursued in Iraq were driven by corporate elite interests – embedded in them as individuals and in groups through the corporate elite networks they were rooted in – which they prioritised, using democracy promotion as a cover up. Using elite theory, membership network analysis and content analysis, this book explains who these elites were, how their backgrounds and social influences impacted their world-views, and what this looked like in a detailed exploration of their decision-making on the ground in Iraq. Nouri examines the nature of US power, what drives it, what it looks like and its legacies. This volume provides valuable understandings and lessons to scholars and students of International Relations studying democracy, US foreign policy, post-colonialism, elite theory, US imperialism, neoliberalism, orientalism, Iraqi politics, and the making of the Iraq constitution.
Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States
Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States write by Bamo Nouri. This book was released on 2018. Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
America's Role in Nation-Building
America's Role in Nation-Building - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Role in Nation-Building write by James Dobbins. This book was released on 2003-08-01. America's Role in Nation-Building available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The post-World War II occupations of Germany and Japan set standards for postconflict nation-building that have not since been matched. Only in recent years has the United States has felt the need to participate in similar transformations, but it is now facing one of the most challenging prospects since the 1940s: Iraq. The authors review seven case studies--Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan--and seek lessons about what worked well and what did not. Then, they examine the Iraq situation in light of these lessons. Success in Iraq will require an extensive commitment of financial, military, and political resources for a long time. The United States cannot afford to contemplate early exit strategies and cannot afford to leave the job half completed.
The Political Economy of American Militarism
The Political Economy of American Militarism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Economy of American Militarism write by Randy S. La Prairie. This book was released on 2021. The Political Economy of American Militarism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sociologists have paid little attention to the structural causes of American participation in wars. Consequently, the discipline offers few theoretical perspectives on American war making. Sociological theories that do exist fall under two headings: state-centric and Marxist theories. Both lack prima facie plausibility. In this dissertation, I advance a unique, alternative theoretical framework that I argue offers a more tenable theory of American militarism in the post-World War II period. The elite model of war mobilization, as I refer to it, consists of five interrelated structural causes of American participation in wars: (1) state-capitalist imperialism; (2) elite control of public policy; (3) imperial ideology; (4) elite control of the mass media; and (5) elite influence on academia. The foundations of the theory are a military-industrial complex theory and a power elite model of politics and culture. Most recent theoretical work on the causes of American militarism focuses on the 2003 Iraq War. In this study, then, I present a process tracing analysis of the invasion of Iraq that demonstrates that an elite model of war mobilization provides a fuller, more historically accurate explanation of the Iraq War than either state-centric or Marxist theories. The elite model suggests that two pressures for war emerge from the military-industrial complex: a drive for concentrated decision-making power in the executive branch, and profit-making opportunities for private defense firms. A major finding of this study is that the Bush administration’s internal reasons for invading Iraq correspond to these two imperatives. In turn, the power elite social status of key administration officials largely explains why they accepted and acted on these imperatives. A virulent form of imperial ideology also contributed to their decision to invade Iraq. As also predicted by the model, the Bush administration controlled the mass media marketing of their war campaign, successfully mobilizing public support for the war. And though the war was not widely accepted among academics, many prominent academics supported the war on the basis of neo-Wilsonian assumptions that were popular in the academy in the 1990s and which also informed the administration’s worldview and Iraq policy.
Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006)
Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006) write by Bruce R. Pirnie. This book was released on 2008-01-25. Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the deleterious effects of the U.S. failure to focus on protecting the Iraqi population for most of the military campaign in Iraq and analyzes the failure of a technologically driven counterinsurgency (COIN) approach. It outlines strategic considerations relative to COIN; presents an overview of the conflict in Iraq; describes implications for future operations; and offers recommendations to improve the U.S. capability to conduct COIN.
