Book TitleIraq and the Second Gulf War : State Building and Regime Security
Number of Pages302 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicInternational Relations / General, Military / Persian Gulf War (1991), Comparative Politics, Middle East / Arabian Peninsula
Publication Year1997
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorMohammad-Mahmoud Mohamedou
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-033151
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal327.56705367
SynopsisThis important study seeks to address the issues of state building and regime security as key variables affecting and determining a foreign policy-making process during a crisis and confrontation., This important study seeks to address the issues of state building and regime security as key variables affecting and determining a foreign policy-making process during a crisis and confrontation. Mohamedou proceeds from the notion that decision makers' dispositions matter their worldview, ideology, beliefs, and axioms play a role in state building as well as the historical operational environment (societal, regional, and international). The case this study is concerned with is the Second Gulf War, initiated on August 2, 1990, with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and which came to an end on February 28, 1991, after a military confrontation between Iraq and an international coalition of twenty-eight countries led by the United States of America.