Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? / edited by Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012. - xii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge global security studies . - Routledge global security studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : why did the United States invade Iraq? / Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall -- Explaining the war in Iraq / Robert Jervis -- Ideas, American grand strategy, and the war in Iraq / Colin Dueck -- Ideas and entrepreneurs : a constructivist explanation of the Iraq War / Andrew Flibbert -- Explaining the Iraq War : the Israel lobby theory / Jerome Slater -- Neoconservatism and American hegemony / Michael Lind -- Blood for oil, in Iraq and elsewhere / Michael Klare -- Oil and the decision to invade Iraq / John S. Duffield -- Tony Blair nurtures the special relationship / Jane M.O. Sharp -- In pursuit of primacy : why the United States invaded Iraq / Jane K. Cramer and Edward C. Duggan.

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Iraq War, 2003-2011--Causes.


Iraq--Strategic aspects.
United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.

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