| ID | 153365 |
| Title Proper | Realism, liberalism and the Iraq war |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Deudney, Daniel ; Ikenberry, G John ; Daniel Deudney G. John Ikenberry |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The 2003 Iraq War was one of the great disasters in the history of American foreign policy. This conclusion is by now, and for good reason, very widely accepted. In the years since the war, however, other, less useful conventional wisdoms have formed. Among these, none is more salient – or more misleading – than the notion that the war was a product of liberalism. This view has been promoted and endlessly repeated by prominent academic realists such as John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, Barry Posen, Christopher Layne and Michael Desch. These academic realists were early and vocal critics of the war, which they indict as the product of essentially liberal American foreign-policy impulses, manifest in both liberal-internationalist and neoconservative circles. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 59, No.4; Aug-Sep 2017: p.7-26 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 59 No 4 |
| Key Words | Conflict ; Iraq ; United States ; Middle East ; Foreign Policy |