Regime Change Consensus

Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Joseph Stieb, Joseph (Ohio State University) Stieb

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Why did the United States invade Iraq, setting off a chain of events that profoundly changed the Middle East and the US global position? The Regime Change Consensus offers a compelling look at how the United States pivoted from a policy of containment to regime change in Iraq after September 11, 2001. Starting with the Persian Gulf War, the book traces how a coalition of political actors argued with increasing success that the totalitarian nature of Saddam Hussein's regime and the untrustworthy behavior of the international coalition behind sanctions meant that containment was a doomed policy. By the end of the 1990s, a consensus belief emerged that only regime change and democratization could fully address the Iraqi threat. Through careful examination, Joseph Stieb expands our understanding of the origins of the Iraq War while also explaining why so many politicians and policymakers rejected containment after 9/11 and embraced regime change.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-15
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt418 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMilitary, War, and Society in Modern American History
Antal sidor281
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108978385

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Introduction: 1. A Hope, Not a Policy: Containment and Regime Change During the Gulf Crisis, 1990–1991; 2. The Fallout From Victory: Containment and its Critics, 1991–1992; 3. The Long Watch: The High Years of Containment 1994–1996; 4. Saddam Must Go: Entrenching the Regime Change Consensus, 1997–2000; 5. Not Whether, But How and When: The Iraq Debate from 9/11 to the Invasion; Conclusion: Containment, Liberalism and the Regime; Bibliography; Index.

'Stieb's insightful and deeply researched new book shows how the quest to salve the lingering sore of Iraq after 1991 led to the outright bloody mess of invasion, occupation, and desperation after 2003. That scar will not soon heal. No issue more haunts American policymakers today than the question of how, if ever, to deploy force to expand the roster of democratic states, and Stieb's work is simply the best source we have for understanding how regime change came into vogue, before it fell into disrepute.' Jeffrey A. Engel, Director of the Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University