THE IRAQ WAR AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICS

Routledge, 2005

Edited: By Alex DANCHEV and John MACMILLAN

İçindekiler:

Introduction: The Iraq War And Democratic Politics
The Global Settings: US Foreing Policy And The Future Of The Middle East
Bush’s War: The Iraq Conflict And American Democracy
The Neo-Cons: Neo-Conservative Thinking Since The Onset Of The Iraq War
The United Kingdom
The European Dimension
Turkey: Democratic Legitimacy
It Seemed The Best Thing To Be Up And Go’: On The Legal Case For Invading Iraq
The Transition To Democracy in Iraq: Historical Legacies, Resurgent İdentities And Reactionary Tendencies
The Democratic Transition in Iraq And The Discovery Of its Limitations
Iraq, Political Reconstruction And Liberal Theory
Afghanistan And Iraq: Failed States, Or Democracy On Hold?
The Iraq Body Count Project: Civil Society And The Democratic Deficit
Story Development, Or, Walter Mitty The Undefeated

Tanıtım Yazısı:

Invading Iraq in 2003 has proved the most deeply divisive political decision of recent times. Despite considerable demostic oppisition, the strong reservations of some close allies and the United Nations and the anger of much of the non-Western world, the United States and Britain stil controversially decided that should commit their forces to toppling Saddam Hussein.
The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy. The book shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics.
Subjects covered include:

• The underlying moral and political issues raised by the war;
• US foreing policy and the Middle East;
• The fundamental dilemas and contradictions of democratic intervention;
• How the war was perceived in Britain, the EU, Turkey and the United States;
• The immense challenges of creating democracy inside Iraq;
• The influential role of NGOs such as the Iraq Body Count website;
• The legitimacy of the war within international law;
• The relationship between democratic government and intelligence.
Draving on specialists in the fields of political theory, international relations, international law and the politics of Iraq, this book is essential reading for all those conserned with the future of democracy.