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This research seeks to provide an analysis of why the invasion of Iraq occurred in 2003. War is not an event that emerges in isolation; therefore this research will provide an examination of the historical animosity that existed between Iraq and the US starting with the Gulf War due to the familial connection between Bush presidents. The research will also provide analysis of the changes to the international environment in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century that contributed to the emergence of a permissive environment that increased the likelihood of this war occurring. Finally, due to their predominance in the Bush Jnr Administration the research will centre on the neoconservatives of the Project for the New American Century. It will analyse their ideology and their exploitation of the permissive environment created by the war on terror and their positions of authority within the Bush administration to fulfil their vendetta against Saddam Hussein. This research argues that the neoconservatives were able to take advantage of the opportunities that emerged within the international system to convince the President, Congress and a significant section of the public to support the intervention in Iraq.

Table of Contents Prologue: A Tale of Two Tilts I. TWO HALVES OF THE BALANCE 1. The Savanna Code: What Good Are Morals? 2. The Rise of Wealth: How We Became Civilized and Started Shopping II. WORLDS OUT OF KILTER 3. From Melqart to Zombieworld: Adventures in Imbalance 4. Madness, Lies, and Crashes: When Prices Run Free 5. Blundering Back To Balance: TARP and Tear Gas 6. China: Morals and the Rush to Wealth III. LIFE AROUND US 7. From Hudson's Bay to eBay: Why Some People Like Going to Work 8. Markets and Sin: Murder, Mega-Casinos, and Drug Wars 9. Underworlds: The Tao of Gangs 10. Cooling the Earth: The Preservation Markets 11. The World Ahead

Friedman and McNeill draw on recent research in evolutionary gametheory and behavioral economics to explore the relationship between our moral codesand our market systems. They show how imbalance between morals and markets is at theroot of the recent corporate scandals in the US as well as the global financialcrisis the world continues to face.

"Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich, fertig ist das..." - Wir Menschen neigen dazu, selbst in Kritzeleien, seltsamen Erdformationen, ja sogar Bildern vom Mars oder Mond Gesichter zusehen. Warum das so ist, was das menschliche Gesicht so einzigartig macht und welch bemerkenswerte Bedeutung es als Spiegel des Selbst hat, das beleuchtet Daniel McNeill in seinem geistreichen und unterhaltsamen Streifzug durch Wissenschaft, Literatur, Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte.