TY - BOOK AU - Malik,Ahmed Ijaz TI - US foreign policy and the Gulf Wars: decision-making and international relations T2 - The library of international relations SN - 9781780768359 (hardback) : AV - DS63.2.U5 M33 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - I.B. Tauris KW - Iraq War (2003-2011) KW - fast KW - Persian Gulf War (1991) KW - Persian Gulf War, 1991 KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Diplomatic relations KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Middle East KW - Iraq N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-285) and index; Introduction --; Part 1; Development of the theoretical perspective --; 1; Post-cold war academic and intellectual arguments on the use of force by the development of liberal cosmopolitan discourses --; 2; Post-cold war realist and neoconservative discourses on US foreign policy --; Part 2; Discursive analysis comprising factual data analysis --; 3; President G.H.W. Bush's administration and the 1991 Gulf War --; 4; President G.W. Bush's administration, 9/11, the 2003 Gulf War and 2005 elections in Iraq --; Conclusion ER -