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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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 The Duck of Minerva. This post discusses their forthcoming International Organization article, which is now available as an "online first" piece and will be free to download for the next two weeks. Tomorrow we will run a response by David Lake [now available here]. In a forthcoming article in International Organization, “Known Unknowns: Power Shifts, Uncertainty, and War,” we introduce a...