The effects of U.S. power preponderance, combined with 9/11, increased the likelihood of a preventive war against Iraq.
What Caused the Iraq War? Debs and Monteiro reply to Lake (Part III)
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Why did the US invade Iraq?
What Caused the Iraq War? David Lake Replies to Debs and Monteiro (Part II)
That one can pose a rational model that predicts preventive war does not make it the right model or necessarily do justice to the facts of the case.
What Caused the Iraq War? A Debate (Part I)
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Alexandre Debs and Nuno P. Monteiro, both of Yale University. In it, they discuss the causes of the Iraq War, a subject of some recent discussion at...
About the Category: Why did the US invade Iraq?
Three scholars debate whether it makes sense to see the Iraq War as the result of rational calculations by the Bush administration.