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Constructivist-Institutionalism and the invasion of Iraq : crisis, learning and the national interest
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Hassan, Oz (2015) Constructivist-Institutionalism and the invasion of Iraq : crisis, learning and the national interest. Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences: An International Refereed Journal, 1 (1). pp. 66-87. doi:10.19089/hhss.v1i1.5 ISSN 2413-6301.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.19089/hhss.v1i1.5
Abstract
Constructivist accounts of America’s invasion of Iraq have been united by their social philosophy and empirical assertions that in light of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, the G.W. Bush Administration began radically changing the postulation with which foreign policy was calculated and these changes led to the Iraq conflict. Many accounts, however, fail to provide sufficient accounts of agent’s strategic action and demonstrate their causal ascription. With the aim of rectifying these oversights, a neo-institutionalist methodology will be fused with the constructivist insights and provide a systematic approach to explaining when, how and why events became important to the emergence of the 2003 Iraq policy. It is argued that by merging historical context and discursive constructions of crisis, the Iraq policy can be revealed as a product of social learning, with the failures of the Clinton foreign policy and new lessons learned in Afghanistan proving crucial.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences: An International Refereed Journal | ||||
Publisher: | United Arab Emirates University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | ||||
ISSN: | 2413-6301 | ||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 1 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 66-87 | ||||
DOI: | 10.19089/hhss.v1i1.5 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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