The Politics of Intelligence and American

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.

Ofira Seliktar is a Professor of Political Science at Gratz College and Adjunct Professor at Temple University.She specializes in the study of intelligence failures, among her previous books are Failing the Crystal Ball Test: The Carter Administration and the Fundamentalist Revolution in Iran and Politics, Paradigm, and Intelligence Failures: Why So Few Predicted the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Professor Seliktar is currently working on a new book, Paradigms, Intelligence and Reality: Could the Failure of the Oslo Peace Process Have Been Predicted.?

Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Predicting Political Change	p. 1
Paradigmatic Views of Political Change in the Middle East: Arab Exceptionalism and the International Order	p. 7
Paradigms of Change and American Foreign Policy toward Iraq in the 1980s: Moderating a Totalitarian Regime and the Road to the Gulf War	p. 27
Containing a Rogue State: The Iraq Policy of the Clinton Administration	p. 55
September Eleven, the Bush Administration, and the Ascendance of the Neoconservative Vision of Democratic Universalism	p. 87
The Buildup to Operation Iraqi Freedom: Implementing Democratic Universalism	p. 113
Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Rise and Fall of Democratic Universalism	p. 139
Reflections on the Iraqi Predictive Predicament	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 171
Index	p. 207
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The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq

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