The Iraq conflict

edited by Kristina Touzenis

Legal aspects of the war

There can be little doubt that the war in Iraq is on shaky ground legally. The books in this section give an idea of the International Law in force and the problems linked to the war.

  • Falk, Richard (Editor); Gendzier, Irene (Editor); Lifton, Robert Jay (Editor): Crimes of War: Iraq. Nation Books. 2006.
  • Heazle, Michael (Editor);Islam, Iyanatul (Editor): Beyond the Iraq War: The Promises, Pitfalls And Perils of External Interventionism. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2006
  • Linnan, David K.: Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, and Armed Conflict Law: A Guide to the Issues. Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth. 2008
  • Shah, Niaz A.: Self-Defense in Islamic and International Law: Assessing Al-Qaeda and the Invasion of Iraq. Palgrave Macmillan. 2008
  • Sokmen, Muge Gursoy: The World Tribunal on Iraq: Making the Case Against War. Olive Branch Press. 2008

Media and war

For decades now many wars have been fought in the media as well as on the ground. The selection of books in this section gives a picture of how the media has been used in the Iraq war both before the war actually started and in the years of combat that have followed.

  • Carlson, Timothy; Katovsky, Bill: Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, An Oral History. The Lyons Press. 2004.
  • Corn, David; Isikoff, Michael: Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War.Three Rivers Press. 2007
  • Hakanen, Ernest A.; Nikolaev, Alexander G.: Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate. Palgrave Macmillan. 2006.
  • Thomas, Conroy: Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home. Lexington Books 2007
  • Reuters Correspondents: Under Fire: Untold Stories from the Front Line of the Iraq War. Reuters Prentice Hall. 2004
  • Wolfe, Wojtek Mackiewicz: Winning the War of Words: Selling the War on Terror from Afghanistan to Iraq. Praeger Security International Academic Cloth. 2008

Testimonies to the war

The books in this section are testimonies from people who have been in Iraq during the past 4 years, what they have experienced and how they consider the ongoing war.

  • DeLong, Michael; Lukeman, Noah; Zinni, Anthony: A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Zenith Press. 2007
  • Depue, Mark R.: Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Company and the War in Iraq. University Press of Kansas. 2007
  • Dixon, Susan; Ellsberg, Daniel; Wright, Ann: Dissent in a Democracy: Profiles of Whistleblowers and Others Who Have Dared to Speak the Truth about the War in Iraq. Koa Books. 2007
  • Mowle, Thomas (Ed.): Hope Is Not a Plan: The War in Iraq from Inside the Green Zone. Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth 2007.

Opinions

In this section critical opinions will be found on the motives behind and the conducting of the conflict.

  • Alam, Shahid M.: Challenging the New Orientalism: Dissenting Essays on the "War Against Islam". Islamic Publications International. 2007
  • Cerf, Christopher; Sifry, Micah L.: The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Touchstone. 2003.
  • Chomsky, Noam; Rai, Milan: War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War with Iraq. W. W. Norton & Company. 2002
  • Galbraith, Peter W.: The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. Simon & Schuster. 2007
  • Hoffmann, Stanley: Gulliver Unbound: The Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004
  • Ricks, Thomas E.: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Penguin. 2007

International politics and the war, past present and future

This - the broadest - section gather books in which are analysed not only the political framework in which the war is being fought, but also what the future may be, how strategies have failed and what could and can be done differently.

  • Allawi, Ali A.: The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. Yale University Press. 2007
  • Ajami, Fouad: The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq. Free Press. 2007
  • Anderson, Liam (Editor); Stansfield, Gareth (Editor): The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division 2004. Palgrave Macmillan
  • Arjomand, Said Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With Special Reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. Hart Pub. 2008
  • Arnove, Anthony: Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. Metropolitan Books. 2007
  • Baker, James A. III (Author); Hamilton, Lee H. (Author); The Iraq Study Group (Author): The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach. Vintage 2006.
  • Barakat, Sultan: Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq. Routledge. 2007
  • Bodansky, Yossef: The Secret History of the Iraq War. Regan Books. 2005
  • Bowen, Wayne H: Undoing Saddam: From Occupation to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq. Potomac Books. 2007
  • Carlisle, Rodney P.: Iraq War. Facts on File; 2nd Updtd edition. 2007
  • Chehab, Zaki: Iraq Ablaze: Inside the Insurgency. 2005. I.B. Tauris
  • Cockburn, Patrick: The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq. Verso. 2006.
  • Cushman, Thomas: A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq. University of California Press. 2005
  • Davies, Emma; Cordesman, Anthony H.: Iraq's Insurgency and the Road to Civil Conflict. Praeger Security International Multi-volume. 2007
  • Diamond, Larry Jay: Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. 2005. Times Books
  • Dodge, Toby: Iraq's Future: The Aftermath of Regime Change (Adelphi Papers). 2005. Taylor & Francis
  • Dyer, Gwynne: After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East. Thomas Dunne Books. 2008
  • Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research: Iraq: Reconstruction and Future Role. I. B. Tauris. 2005
  • Falk, Richard: The Iraq War and the Future of the World Order. Routledge. 2007.
  • Johnston, Sheila Enslev: The Iraqi Conflict. Altitude Publishing. 2008
  • Foulk, Vincent L.: Battle for Fallujah: Occupation, Resistance And Stalemate in the War in Iraq. McFarland & Company. 2006
  • Keegan, John: The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath. Vintage 2005.
  • Malone, David M: The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005. Oxford University Press. 2007
  • Murray, Williamson; Scales, Robert H. Jr.: The Iraq War: A Military History. Belknap Press. 2005
  • Napoleoni, Loretta: Insurgent Iraq. Constable and Robinson. 2005.
  • Packer, George: The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq. 2006, Faber and Faber
  • Phillips, David L.: Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco. 2005. Basic Books
  • Rogers, Paul: Iraq and the War on Terror: Twelve Months of Insurgency. 2005. I.B. Tauris
  • Shadid, Anthony: Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War. 2005. Henry Holt & Company
  • Seliktar, Ofira: The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq. Palgrave Macmillan 2008
  • Talmon, Stefan (ed.): The Occupation of Iraq: The Official Documents of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Hart Pub. 2007
  • William: A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq. Raincoast Books. 2005
  • Yildiz, Kerim: The Kurds in Iraq - Second Edition: The Past, Present and Future. Pluto Press. 2007