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Ideology, Realpolitik, and US Foreign Policy

A Discussion of Frank P. Harvey's Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2013

Stephen M. Walt
Stephen M. Walt*
Affiliation:
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence. By Frank P. Harvey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 360p. $103.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

The Iraq War initiated by the Bush administration in 2003 was and perhaps continues to be an important episode in world politics, US politics, and the politics of the Middle East. The war also galvanized controversy among public intellectuals and broader publics, and generated strong opposition in many European and Middle Eastern countries. In Explaining the Iraq War, Frank P. Harvey offers an interesting analysis of the war and its causes, and does so in a way that raises broader questions about politics and about the scientific study of politics. We have thus invited a distinguished group of political scientists from a variety of subfields to review the book, both as an account of the Iraq War and as a contribution to political science more generally.—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

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Symposium: Ideology, Realpolitik, and US Foreign Policy
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 586 - 588
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013 

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