The Iraq Papers

The Iraq Papers will be the most comprehensive and best-organized document collection of America''s misadventure in Iraq. The editors have organized the book around the concept of pre-emption a policy that represented a significant break with past American foreign policy. The editors locate the intellectual origins of pre-emption in neoconservative writings from the early 1990s and then trace how the logic of pre-emption played out across a number of arenas in the first decade of the twenty first century: the war itself America''s relationship with its allies and the UN its dealings with Iraqi society and successive Iraqi governments after 2003 and domestic policy in the Bush-era United States. They close with a chapter on the limits of American policy as it moves into the Obama era. There are eleven chapters in total and ten will feature a representative selection of the most important documents relating to the origins of the war-including prominent writings by early neoconservative advocates for invasion-and the war''s impact on Iraq America and the world. Covering more than a decade The Iraq Papers will be a definitive source for anyone interested in understanding this enormously complicated and difficult conflict.