Presidential policies and the road to the second Iraq war : from Forty One to Forty Three / edited by John Davis.

Includes index.

Presidential decision-making : three models and the road to war with Iraq / Denise von Hermann -- The ideology of war : the neoconservatives and the hijacking of US policy in Iraq / John Davis -- Legislative-executive relations and US policy toward Iraq / Louis Fischer -- Infighting in Washington : the impact of bureaucratic politics on US Iraq policy / John davis -- The diplomatic perspective. Person diplomacy and US policy toward Iraq / Robert Pauly -- Coalition diplomacy and Iraq / Tom Lansford -- Post-Gulf War, post-Desert Fox, and the post-Saddam phase : US policy against Iraq and its impact in the Middle East / Mohammed El Khawas -- Military dimensions. From containment to the Bush doctrine : the road to war with Iraq / Cameron Thies -- Low intensity conflict and Iraq : 1991-2003 / Doug Brattebo -- Iraq and the evolution of American strategy / Steven Metz.