TY  - BOOK
AU  - PRẺMONT Karine
AU  - DAVID Charles-Philippe
AU  - BOUCHER Vincent
TI  - The clash of historical analogies and their influence on decision-making: the case of Iraqi reconstruction under George W. Bush
PY  - 2018///
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - FOREIGN POLICY
KW  - MIDDLE EAST
KW  - IRAQ
N2  - Contrary to the conventional wisdom in the literature on United States foreign policy, there was no consensus within the George W. Bush Administration on the parallel between the reconstruction of Iraq and that of post-Second World War Germany and Japan. Systematic analysis of available sources shows that the decision-makers drew a large number of different historical analogies-73 in all. This analysis takes a fresh look at the use of analogies regarding Iraqi reconstruction. We divide the period of April 2003 to June 2008 into four phases, in each of which a different analogy predominates-Afghanistan, Germany and Japan, the Cold War, and Vietnam. Analysis of the analogies embraced by five distinct groups within the Administration's decision-making team-nationalist hawks, neoconservatives, administrators of Iraq, realist internationalists and the president-clarifies the affinities and tensions amongst them
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2018.1453983
ER  -