The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences

by DeFronzo,James

• ISBN13: 9780813343914
• ISBN10: 0813343917
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-08-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Exploring the key historical, political, and social underpinnings, James DeFronzo analyzes the impact of this defining war in the Middle East.The Iraq Warexplains the compelling and interrelated sociological and political forces that led to war, accounting for important aspects of the occupation, the development of the resistance, and the conflict's influence on other nations. Beyond a systematic study of the invasion, occupation, and the future of the U.S.-Iraq relationship, DeFronzo also covers the early history of Iraq, the British mandate, the antimonarchy revolution, and the influence of the Saddam Hussein regime and its wars-the Iran-Iraq War, the invasion of Kuwait, and the Persian Gulf War.The Iraq Warprovides a probing analysis of the underlying factors that devastated Iraq, shook the American political system, and helped shape political developments around the world.

Author Biography

James DeFronzo is associate professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the editor of Revolutionary Movements in World History: 1750 to the Present (2006), a three-volume encyclopedia, as well as the author of numerous articles on criminology, social policy related to crime, revolutionary movements (in the encyclopedia), teaching a revolutions course, demography, gender issues, and social stratification. Since the spring of 1985, more than seven thousand students have completed his Revo­lutionary Movements course, from which this book was developed.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Culture and History of Iraq: Ancient Mesopotamia to the British Mandate	p. 5
From the British Mandate to the 1958 Revolution	p. 21
The Iraq Revolution and the Establishment of the Baathist Regime	p. 45
Saddam Hussein, the Iranian Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War	p. 69
The Invasion of Kuwait and the 1991 Persian Gulf War	p. 99
The Iraq War: Causes, Invasion, and Postinvasion Policies	p. 127
Iraq in the Context of Previous US Interventions and the Vietnam War	p. 171
Postinvasion Iraq: Occupation and Insurgency	p. 195
Counterinsurgency and US Corporate Presence	p. 225
Impacts of the Iraq War	p. 255
Glossary	p. 281
Major Personalities	p. 289
Chronology of the Iraq War	p. 293
Selected Documentaries	p. 299
Index	p. 305
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