Ebook: Making the world safe for capitalism : how Iraq threatened the US economic empire and had to be destroyed
Author: Christopher Doran
- Tags: Iraq War 2003-2011 -- Economic aspects. Iraq War 2003-2011 -- Causes. United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009. HISTORY -- Military -- Iraq War (2003- ) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy. Diplomatic relations. Economics. War -- Causes. Iraq. United States.
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
- City: London, New York, United States, United States., Iraq
- Language: English
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The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century – leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.
Christopher Doran provides a unique perspective, arguing that the drive to war came from the threat Iraq might pose to American economic hegemony if the UN sanctions regime was ended. Doran argues that this hegemony is rooted in third world debt and corporate market access. It was protection of these arrangements that motivated US action, not Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction or a simplistic desire to seize its oil.
This book will provide new insights on the war which still casts a shadow over global politics, and will have wide appeal to all those concerned about the Middle East, world peace and global development.