Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

The definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war.

In Death, Dominance, and State-Building, the eminent scholar of conflict Roger D. Petersen provides the first comprehensive analytic history of post-invasion Iraq. Although the war is almost universally derided as one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of the post-Cold War era, Petersen argues that the course and conduct of the conflict is poorly understood. He begins by outlining an accessible framework for analy...