Screen LibraryA history of the Iraq crisis : France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991-2003 /
"In March 2003, the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq to put an end to the regime of Saddam Hussein. The war was launched without a United Nations mandate and was based on the erroneous claim that Iraq had retained weapons of mass destruction. France, under President Jacques Chirac a...
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Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, D.C. : New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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"In March 2003, the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq to put an end to the regime of Saddam Hussein. The war was launched without a United Nations mandate and was based on the erroneous claim that Iraq had retained weapons of mass destruction. France, under President Jacques Chirac and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, spectacularly opposed the United States and British invasion, leading a global coalition against the war that also included Germany and Russia. The diplomatic crisis leading up to the war shook both French and American perceptions of each other and revealed cr |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 381 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-365) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231704441 0231704445 |
| Index Number: | DS79 |
| CLC: |
K377.53 K373.6 D815.4 |
| Call Number: | K373.6/B793 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Prologue : faced with a hyperpower -- From one war to another : 1991-2001 -- Bush 43 and September 11 : January-December 2001 -- The axis of evil : January-September 2002 -- The negotiations : September-December 2002 -- The rupture : January 2003 -- The confrontation : February 2003 -- The war : spring-summer 2003 -- Epilogue : reconciliation, 2003-2007 -- Afterword. |