Iraq In The Twenty First Century

Author : Tareq Y. Ismael,Jacqueline S. Ismael
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317567592

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Iraq in the Twenty-First Century by Tareq Y. Ismael,Jacqueline S. Ismael Pdf

Much has been written about the events surrounding the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, especially about the intentions, principles, plans and course of action of US policy, but much less attention has been given to the consequences of US policy on Iraqi political and social development. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of US policy on the social and political development of Iraq in the twenty-first century. It shows how not just the institutions of the state were destroyed in 2003, leaving the way open for sectarianism, but also the country’s cultural integrity, political coherence, and national-oriented economy. It outlines how Iraq has been economically impoverished, assessing the appalling situation which ordinary people, including women and children, have endured, not just as a result of the 2003 war, but also as a consequence of the 1991 war and the sanctions imposed in the following years. The book argues that the social, political, and cultural ruin that accompanied the Iraq war was an absolute catastrophe; that the policies which had such adverse effects were the foreseeable consequences of deliberate policy choices; and that those responsible continue to evade being made accountable.

Author : Alex Conte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138357308

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Security in the 21st Century by Alex Conte Pdf

Author : Asef Bayat,Linda Herrera
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520295353

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Global Middle East by Asef Bayat,Linda Herrera Pdf

Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both “global-in” and “global-out.” It delves into the region’s scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges. Written in short and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region, Global Middle East covers topics including God, Rumi, food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies, students will glean new perspectives about the region.

Author : Jon Simons,John Louis Lucaites
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813585390

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In/visible War by Jon Simons,John Louis Lucaites Pdf

In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have disappeared altogether due to a relative absence of visual images of casualties. Perhaps even more significantly, wars can be fought without sacrifice by the vast majority of Americans. Yet, the normalization of twenty-first century war also renders it highly visible. War is made visible through popular, commercial, mediated culture. The spectacle of war occupies the contemporary public sphere in the forms of celebrations at athletic events and in films, video games, and other media, coming together as MIME, the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network.

Author : Alex Conte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062863975

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Charter of the United Nations (p. 191-215).

Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822586654

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Saddam Hussein's Iraq by James R. Arnold Pdf

Explores how a Saddam Hussein rose to power in Iraq, his role in the Iraqi government, the Iraq War, and his capture.

Author : Caroline Holmqvist-Jonsäter,Christopher Coker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135183554

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The Character of War in the 21st Century by Caroline Holmqvist-Jonsäter,Christopher Coker Pdf

This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The focus is on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, situations that occupy a central role in international affairs and that have become highly influential in thinking about war in the widest sense. The intellectual foundation of the volume is Clausewitz’s insight that though war has an enduring nature, its character changes with time, space, social structure and culture. The fact that war’s character varies means that different actors may interpret, experience and, ultimately, wage war differently. The conflict between the ways that war is conceptualised in the prevailing Western and international discourse, and the manner in which it plays out on the ground is a key discussion point for scholars and practitioners in the field of international relations. Contributions combine insights from social theory, philosophy, sociology and strategic studies and ask directly what contemporary war is, and what the implications are for the future. This book will be of much interest to students of war studies, strategic studies, security studies and IR in general. Caroline Holmqvist-Jonsäter is currently completing a PhD in the conflation of war and policing in international conflicts at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Christopher Coker is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of 11 books on war and security issues.

Author : Homa Katouzian,Hossein Shahidi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134077595

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Iran in the 21st Century by Homa Katouzian,Hossein Shahidi Pdf

Iran is an ancient country, an oil-exporting economy and an Islamic Republic. It experienced two full-scale revolutions in the twentieth century, the latter of which had large and important regional and international consequences, including an eight-year war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And now in the twenty-first century, it confronts issues and experiences problems which have important implications for its future development and external relations. Featuring outstanding contributions from leading sociologists, social anthropologists, political scientists and economists in the field of Iranian studies, this book is the first to examine Iran and its position in the contemporary world. In developing this argument, topics examined include: social developments in the country including gender relations contemporary politics international relations relations with the US and Israel nuclear weapons and energy programmes oil and the development of the economy.

Author : Michael Petranick
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783668103535

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On Isis. The Reality of the 21st Century Battlefield by Michael Petranick Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, , language: English, abstract: This paper discusses in varying detail the realities of the twenty-first-century battlefield environment. Unless practiced by large nation-states against each other, conventional warfare is a dying platform by which asymmetric warfare and terrorism have replaced the conventional warfare dynamic. Asymmetric warfare is defined as the blurring of the lines between politics, economics, combatants, civilians, and their context in the prosecution of war on an ever changing battlefield. Inclusive in this dynamic is cyber, communications, terrorism, the use of civilians as human shields and as both offensive and defensive weapons. Fourth generation warfare, as asymmetrical warfare has come to be known, is not new. It has existed in every war since the dawn of man. What is different is the total application of asymmetric components on a battlefield as a means to fight. The population-centric model, as espoused by the United States Army and Marine Corps, has now made it into the lexicon of air operations in Iraq, a segment of war prosecution it was never designed for. As a result, the Air Force has been subjected to mission paralysis and ultimately, mission failure. David Galula gave future military commanders guidance, not hard and fast rules. Rules of engagement have come to favor the enemy, and if the reality of war does not return to those in command, the United States may never win another war.

Author : Rob Johnson,Martijn Kitzen,Tim Sweijs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000347067

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The Conduct of War in the 21st Century by Rob Johnson,Martijn Kitzen,Tim Sweijs Pdf

This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated. Accelerating societal, economic, political and technological change affects how we prepare, equip and organise for war, as well as how we conduct war – both in its low-tech and high-tech forms, and whether it is with high intensity or low intensity. The volume examines changes in warfare by investigating the key features of the conduct of war during the first decades of the 21st century. Conceptually centred around the terms ‘kinetic’, ‘connected’ and ‘synthetic’, the analysis delves into a wide range of topics. The contributions discuss hybrid warfare, cyber and influence activities, machine learning and artificial intelligence, the use of armed drones and air power, the implications of the counterinsurgency experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, as well as the consequences for law(fare) and decision making. This work will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, security studies and International Relations. Chapters 1, 2, 5, and 19 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Ayça Çubukçu
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812295375

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For the Love of Humanity by Ayça Çubukçu Pdf

On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq. Despite this being the largest protest in the history of humankind, the war on Iraq began the next month. That year, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) emerged from the global antiwar movement that had mobilized against the invasion and subsequent occupation. Like the earlier tribunal on Vietnam convened by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, the WTI sought to document—and provide grounds for adjudicating—war crimes committed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allied forces during the Iraq war. For the Love of Humanity builds on two years of transnational fieldwork within the decentralized network of antiwar activists who constituted the WTI in some twenty cities around the world. Ayça Çubukçu illuminates the tribunal up close, both as an ethnographer and a sympathetic participant. In the process, she situates debates among WTI activists—a group encompassing scholars, lawyers, students, translators, writers, teachers, and more—alongside key jurists, theorists, and critics of global democracy. WTI activists confronted many dilemmas as they conducted their political arguments and actions, often facing interpretations of human rights and international law that, unlike their own, were not grounded in anti-imperialism. Çubukçu approaches this conflict by broadening her lens, incorporating insights into how Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Iraqi High Tribunal grappled with the realities of Iraq's occupation. Through critical analysis of the global debate surrounding one of the early twenty-first century's most significant world events, For the Love of Humanity addresses the challenges of forging global solidarity against imperialism and makes a case for reevaluating the relationships between law and violence, empire and human rights, and cosmopolitan authority and political autonomy.

Author : C. O'Driscoll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230612037

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The Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition and the Right to War in the Twenty-First Century by C. O'Driscoll Pdf

This book examines the manner by which the just war tradition has been invoked, engaged and developed in the context of the war on terror, paying particular attention to the questions of anticipatory war, humanitarian intervention, and punitive war.

Author : Reuters ltd
Publisher : Reuters Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89084895036

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Twenty-one Days to Baghdad by Reuters ltd Pdf

"Reuters, the international news agency, provides a historic and invaluable account of how the war against Saddam Hussein unfolded in its latest book, Twenty-One Days to Baghdad: A Chronicle of the Iraq War. A day-by-day chronicle assembles more than 100 pictures - from the decks of the American aircraft carriers in the Gulf to the heat of battle in the Iraqi desert, and finally to the streets of Baghdad and Saddam's collapse."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael R. Gordon,Bernard E. Trainor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307388940

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The Endgame by Michael R. Gordon,Bernard E. Trainor Pdf

A Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2012 In this follow-up to their national bestseller Cobra II, Michael Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor deftly piece together the story of the most widely reported but least understood war in American history. This stunning account of the political and military struggle between American, Iraqi, and Iranian forces brings together vivid reporting of diplomatic intrigue and gripping accounts of the blow-by-blow fighting that lasted nearly a decade. Informed by brilliant research, classified documents, and extensive interviews with key figures—including everyone from the intelligence community to Sunni and Shi’ite leaders and former insurgents to senior Iraqi military officers—The Endgame presents a riveting chronicle of the occupation of Iraq to the withdrawal of American troops that is sure to remain the essential account of the war for years to come.

Author : Tareq Y. Ismael,Jacqueline S. Ismael
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317567585

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Iraq in the Twenty-First Century by Tareq Y. Ismael,Jacqueline S. Ismael Pdf

Much has been written about the events surrounding the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, especially about the intentions, principles, plans and course of action of US policy, but much less attention has been given to the consequences of US policy on Iraqi political and social development. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of US policy on the social and political development of Iraq in the twenty-first century. It shows how not just the institutions of the state were destroyed in 2003, leaving the way open for sectarianism, but also the country’s cultural integrity, political coherence, and national-oriented economy. It outlines how Iraq has been economically impoverished, assessing the appalling situation which ordinary people, including women and children, have endured, not just as a result of the 2003 war, but also as a consequence of the 1991 war and the sanctions imposed in the following years. The book argues that the social, political, and cultural ruin that accompanied the Iraq war was an absolute catastrophe; that the policies which had such adverse effects were the foreseeable consequences of deliberate policy choices; and that those responsible continue to evade being made accountable.