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American Plans to Build Democracy in the Middle East After 9/11: the Case of Iraq
American Plans to Build Democracy in the Middle East After 9/11: the Case of Iraq

Author(s): Ewelina Waśko-Owsiejczuk
Subject(s): Political Sciences, Security and defense, Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: United States; Iraq; Terrorism; Extremism; Democracy; Middle East

Summary/Abstract: The “Freedom Agenda” of President George W. Bush for the Middle East assumed that the liberation of Iraq from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and the start of political change would trigger the process of democratization of the entire region. Encouraged by financial and economic support, Arab countries should have been willing to implement political and educational support, which would lead to the creation of civil society and grass-roots political changes initiated by society itself. A number of mistakes made by the Bush administration in Iraq has not only caused the mission of the democratization of Iraq to be a failure, but also influenced the situation that today Iraq is closer to being a failed state than a democracy.

  • Issue Year: 21/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 11-32
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English