Beyond the Iraq War

by Heazle, Michael; Islam, Iyanatul

• ISBN13: 9781845426323
• ISBN10: 1845426320
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Foreword	xi
Kevin Rudd
Editors' introduction: new interventionism but same old promises and perils?	1	(18)
Michael Heazle
Iyanatul Islam
PART I POLITICAL ORIGINS AND FUTURE OF NEOLIBERAL INTERVENTIONISM
The new interventionism and the invasion of Iraq	19	(20)
Michael Wesley
Competing US perspectives on Iraq	39	(18)
Ira Chernus
PART II NEOLIBERAL INTERVENTIONISM IN PRACTICE: DEMOCRACY AND THE IRAQ EXPERIMENT
Democratisation dilemmas: Iraq, the United States and political reform in the Middle East	57	(12)
Anthony Bubalo
Cooperation and resistance under occupation: a complex web	69	(24)
Peter Khalil
Post election Iraq: a case for declining optimism	93	(18)
John Hartley
PART III THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: WESTERN--ARAB/MUSLIM RELATIONS AND PERCEPTIONS
Islam and the West: where to from here?	111	(9)
Amin Saikal
Covering (up) Islam part III: terrorism and the US intervention in Iraq	120	(21)
Michael Heazle
PART IV THE ECONOMICS OF NEOLIBERAL INTERVENTION: ALL DOLLARS AND NO SENSE?
Iraq's sovereign debt and its curious global implications	141	(15)
Ross P. Buckley
Neoliberalism and post-Saddam Iraq: a global perspective	156	(27)
Iyanatul Islam
Index	183