Introduction: The Iraq War and Democratic Politics 2. The Global Setting: US foreign Policy and the Future of the Middle East 3. Bush's War: The Iraq conflict and American Democracy 4. The Neo-Cons: Neo-Conservative Thinking Since the onset of the Iraq War 5. The United Kingdom 6. The European dimension 7. Turkey: Democratic Legitimacy 8. 'It seemed the best thing to be up and go': On the Legal Case for Invading Iraq 9. The Transition to Democracy in Iraq: Historical Legacies, Resurgent Identities and Reactionary Tendencies 10. The Democratic Transition in Iraq and the Discovery of its Limitations 11. Iraq, Political Reconstruction and Liberal Theory 12. Afghanistan and Iraq: Failed States, or Democracy on Hold? 13. The Iraq Body Count Project: Civil Society and the Democratic Deficit 14. Story Development, or, Walter Mitty the Undefeated Index
Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the
University of Nottingham. His research interests include
international history, diplomacy, security, and, latterly, culture.
Much of his previous work has been biographical. His biography of
the philosopher-statesman Oliver Franks (1993) was one of the
Observer's 'Books of the Year'. His biography of the military
writer Basil Liddell Hart (1998) was listed for the Whitbread Prize
for Biography and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. His
unexpurgated edition of the Alanbrooke Diaries (2001, with Daniel
Todman) was listed for the W. H. Smith Biography Award.
John MacMillan is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at
Brunel University. Recent publications include Boundaries in
Question: New Directions in International Relations (edited with
Andrew Linklater), On Liberal Peace (1998), 'The Power of the Pen',
Millennium (1998), and 'A Kantian Protest Against the Peculiar
Discourse of Liberal Peace' (2001)
'Without exception the articles are worth reading.' - Asian
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'Without exception the articles are worth reading.' - Asian
Affairs'The editors and contributors have produced a useful
starting point for an analysis of the key aspects of the most
contentious issue of the twenty-first century.' - Cambridge Journal
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