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

Waśko-Owsiejczuk, Ewelina

dc.contributor.author	Waśko-Owsiejczuk, Ewelina	en
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-23T15:55:11Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-23T15:55:11Z
dc.date.issued	2018-11-22	en
dc.identifier.issn	1641-4233	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26645
dc.description.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 grassroots 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.	en
dc.publisher	Lodz University Press	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal;21	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en
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dc.subject	United States	en
dc.subject	Iraq	en
dc.subject	Terrorism	en
dc.subject	Extremism	en
dc.subject	Democracy	en
dc.subject	Middle East	en
dc.title	American Plans to Build Democracy in the Middle East After 9/11: the Case of Iraq	en
dc.page.number	11-32	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	University of Bialystok, Institute of History and Political Science, Bialystok, Poland	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2300-8695
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	wasko-owsiejczuk@uwb.edu.pl	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/1641-4233.21.02	en

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