Beschreibung:
DeFronzo, James
Provides a probing analysis of the Iraq war and its consequences from a social conflict perspective by exploring the key historical, political, and social underpinnings.
Preface -- Introduction -- Culture and History of Iraq -- From the British Mandate to the 1958 Revolution -- The Iraq Revolution and the Establishment of the Baathist Regime -- Saddam Hussein, the Iranian Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War -- The Invasion of Kuwait and the 1991 Persian Gulf War -- The Iraq War -- Iraq in the Context of Previous US Interventions and the Vietnam War -- Postinvasion Iraq -- Counterinsurgency and US Corporate Presence -- Impacts of the Iraq War -- Major Personalities -- Chronology of the Iraq War -- Selected Documentaries