Summary: The Assassins' Gate E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 20

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of George Packer's book: “The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq”.

This complete summary of "The Assassins' Gate" by George Packer, a renowned American journalist, presents his explanation of the creation of the Bush administration's war policy and how this led to America's invasion of Iraq. He explains how the US became ensnared in a guerrilla war and the impacts this had at home too, from the grief of the families of fallen soldiers to the bitterly polarized political culture of America.

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• Understand the Iraq War, its motivations and its implications
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To learn more, read "The Assassins' Gate" and discover what ultimately led the Bush administration into the Iraq War.

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Book Presentation: The Assassin’s Gate by George Packer

Book Abstract

In The Assassin’s Gate, George Packer investigates exactly how U.S. policy led to American’s invasion of Iraq and then seeks to understand how we have become involved in a protracted occupation and guerilla war. He first examines how the neoconservative policy agenda, growing out of the post-cold war, the humanitarian crises of the ‘90s and post 9-11, redefined American pre-eminence as the sole global power, whose responsibility to spread democracy and protect American interests included the possibility of pre-emptive action and intervening within another country’s affairs.

Packer also charts the administration’s war planning and its impact on troop levels and the post-war environment in Iraq. He develops a detailed and penetrating image of post-war Iraq through his portraits of individual Iraqis, recounted through personal conversations, and of American officials and soldiers, whom he accompanies at work and on patrol.

About the Author

George Packer is currently a journalist for The New Yorker. His reporting on Iraq has received an Oversea Press Club award, as has his coverage on atrocities and civil war in Sierra Leone. His articles have also appeared in The Nation, Harper’s, Mother Jones, and The New York Times.

Summary of The Assassin’s Gate (George Packer)

Neoconservative Origins

The causes leading up to the war in Iraq are rooted in the ideological shifts that produced the neoconservative foreign policy agenda that has come to dominate the Bush administration. In the post-Cold War period of the early 1990s, while many Republicans were withdrawing from American intervention abroad, key figures such as Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz developed ideas about American pre-eminence as a world-power with the obligation to spread democracy, which could necessitate the possibility of working expediently outside of traditional coalitions and using pre-emptive power.