The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq

by Ofira Seliktar

From the publisher:
This book offers an integrative and longitudinal, time-line based analysis of the highly complex process of transforming abstract political paradigms to applied policy on Iraq.To accomplish this task it demonstrates how scholars have conceptualized political change and applied it to the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular, how public intellectuals and other players have used these assumptions to advocate an array of applied policies, and how such discourse informed the four American administrations that have dealt with Iraq and the intelligence community that have advised them.