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A History of the Iraq Crisis: France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991–2003
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Frédéric Bozo

A History of the Iraq Crisis

France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991–2003

Frédéric Bozo

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English
Columbia University Press
06 December 2016
European history; History of the Americas; Iraq War; Diplomacy
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 cracks in the transatlantic relationship that had been building since the end of the Cold War.

Based on exclusive French archival sources and numerous interviews with former officials in both France and the United States, A History of the Iraq Crisis retraces the international exchange that culminated in the 2003 Iraq conflict. It shows how and why the Iraq crisis led to a confrontation between two longtime allies unprecedented since the time of Charles de Gaulle, and it exposes the deep and ongoing divisions within Europe, the Atlantic alliance, and the international community as a whole. The Franco-American narrative offers a unique prism through which the American road to war can be better understood.
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Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   766g
ISBN:   9780231704441
ISBN 10:   0231704445
Pages:   408
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Frederic Bozo is professor in the Department of European Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III). He is the author of Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification (2009), among other works, and was a public policy scholar at the Wilson Center in 2010-11.

Reviews for A History of the Iraq Crisis: France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991–2003

This book, the only serious study in any language of Franco-American relations during the 2002-3 Iraq crisis, is based on the most complete range of sources available on both sides of the Atlantic. It challenges a number of the stereotypes and elements of received wisdom about the crisis and situates the policies of the George W. Bush administration in their true historical context. -- Jolyon Howorth, Yale University, author of Security and Defence Policy in the European Union This book should be required reading for every serious observer of the Syria crisis. It is not about Syria, but about another country with a dictator who dominated international diplomacy for years and was the target of two western military interventions, one successful, the other disastrous: Saddam Hussein's Iraq. -- Sylvie Kauffmann Le Monde


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