America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention and Regional Politics

Introduction / David Ryan -- Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq : the United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958 / Kenneth Osgood -- Through distorted lenses : Iraq and balance of power politics, 1969-1979 / Patrick Kiely -- From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation' : the United States and Iraq, 1975-1992 / David Ryan -- Lost in the desert : Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency / Marilyn B. Young -- Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures : the United States in Iraq / Toby Dodge -- The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror : U.S. Central Command and the war in Iraq / John Morrissey -- What would Jesus do? : evangelicals, the Iraq War and the struggle for position / Melani McAlister -- Against everyone and no-one : the failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond / Scott Lucas and Maria Ryan -- George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War / Trevor B. McCrisken -- The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis : the Bush administration in Iraq / Cary Fraser -- The Imperial Presidency Redux : presidential power and the war in Iraq / Jon Roper -- Securing the state : the U.S. and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics / James Denselow

Ryan, David: Introduction. - S. 1-3 Osgood, Kenneth: Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq: the United States and the Iraqi revolution of 1958. - S. 4-35 Kiely, Patrick: Through distorted lenses: Iraq and balance of power politics 1969-1979. - S. 36-54 Ryan, David: From the "tilt" to the unintended "transformation": the United States and Iraq, 1975-1992. - S. 55-75 Young, Marilyn B.: Lost in the desert: Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency. - S. 76-91 Dodge, Toby: Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures: the United States in Iraq. - S. 92-102 Morrissey, John: The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror: US Central Command and the war in Iraq. - S. 103-122 McAlister, Melani: What would Jesus do? Evangelicals, the Iraq War, and the struggle for position. - S. 123-153 Lucas, Scott; Ryan, Maria: Against everyone and no-one: the failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond. - S. 154-180 McCrisken, Trevor B.: George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War. - S. 181-199 Fraser, Cary: The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis: the Bush administration in Iraq. - S. 200-216 Roper, Jon: The Imperial Presidency Redux: presidential power and the war in Iraq. - S. 217-237 Denselow, James: Securing the state: the US and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics. - S. 238-351