The Legacy of Iraq: From the 2003 War to the Islamic State - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474417914 ISBN 13 : 9781474417914

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The Legacy of Iraq' critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in peace and prosperity. It argues that mistakes made by the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set a sequence of events in motion that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, the Middle East and for the rest of the world. Today, as the nation faces perhaps its greatest challenge in the wake of the devastating advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and another US-led coalition undertakes renewed military action in Iraq, understanding the complex and difficult legacies of the 2003 war could not be more urgent. Ignoring the legacies of the Iraq war and denying their connection to contemporary events could mean that vital lessons are ignored and the same mistakes made again.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Benjamin Isakhan is Australian Research Council Discovery (DECRA) Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, and Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum at Deakin University, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474417914
• ISBN 13: 9781474417914
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Isakhan Benjamin
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