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Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East: Democracy or Domination book cover

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Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East Democracy or Domination

By Oz Hassan Copyright 2013
248 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores how George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa was conceived and implemented as an American national interest, from the Bush era right through to the initial stages of the Obama administration. It highlights how the crisis presented by September 11 2001 led to regime change in Afghanistan and Iraq, but more broadly how American policy towards the... Read more

1. American Interests and a History of Promoting the Status Quo  2. A Constructivist Institutionalist Methodology  3. From Candidate to Crisis: Laying the Discursive tracks of the Freedom Agenda  4. September to December 2001: The Decisive Intervention  5. Constructing the Freedom Agenda for the Middle East  6. Institutionalising the Freedom Agenda: A Policy of Conservative Radicalism  7. Obama’s Freedom Agenda: Conservative Pragmatism and the 2011 Revolutions

Biography

Oz Hassan is an Assistant Professor in US National Security at the University of Warwick, UK.

"Skillfully navigating ideologically-infested waters, Hassan arrives at valuable insights and persuasive, dispassionate conclusions about U.S. policy under both Bush and Obama relating to Arab political change. A fine example of rigorous, reflective scholarship applied to current policy issues of considerable importance and controvery."

　

Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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