Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume seeks to analyze to what extent the controversial US policy of democratizing the Middle East with pre-emptive invasions was justified or effective.
Post 9/11 the US developed a policy of War on Terror, taking the decision to democratize the Middle East with pre-emptive invasions in both Afghanistan and Iraq. As Barakat puts it "Iraq was deliberately de-constructed in order to be reconstructed in a new model."
Looking not only at the evidence of democracy post-invasion, the author also...
Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume seeks to analyze to what extent the controversial US policy ...
Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume analyzes to what extent the controversial US policy of democratizing the Middle East with pre-emptive invasions was justified or effective.
Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume analyzes to what extent the controversial US policy of democ...
The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile, post-conflict environments. Large-scale, externally-assisted statebuilding is a relatively new and distinct foreign policy domain having risen to the forefront of the international agenda as the negative consequences of state weakness have been repeatedly revealed in the form of entrenched poverty, regional instability and serious threats to international security. Despite the increasing volume of research on statebuilding, the use and uptake of...
The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile, po...
