Body Count : The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq.

Body Count : The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq.

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Lily Hamourtziadou's important analysis of the scale and causes of civilian deaths in Iraq since the US-led coalition's 2003 invasion sheds new light on the War on Terror. From early fighting to the departure and return of troops and the rise of ISIS, she tracks the cost of conflict and co...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hamourtziadou, Lily
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Casualties.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Civilian war casualties > Iraq.
Battle casualties.
Civilian war casualties.
Iraq > History > 2003-
Iraq.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Human Security and the Emergence of Body Counts
  • International humanitarian law and human rights law
  • Casualty recording
  • 1 The Long Journey to the War on Terror
  • The wars
  • US security policy: neoconservatism and empire
  • European Kantians and American Hobbesians
  • The War on Terror: four narratives
  • A clash of civilizations
  • Good versus evil
  • Imperialism by a (benevolent?) hegemon.
  • A cluster of morbid symptoms
  • Iraq Body Count
  • 2003-2005 shock, awe and the dossier of civilian casualties
  • 2 The Rising Violence: Writing the War 2006-2007
  • Iraq 2007: the surge as America fights back
  • 3 The Beginning of the End of Sectarian Violence? Writing the War 2008-2009
  • 2008: Iraq after the surge
  • Iraq in 2009
  • Arche and hegemony: leadership, power and a story of cooperation
  • Security and vulnerability
  • threats to the vulnerable state
  • Energy security
  • 4 Iraq 2010-2013
  • Iraq 2010
  • Iraq and casualty recording in 2011.
  • Comprehension and humanization of the data in the Iraq War Logs
  • Iraq 2012
  • The Human Terrain System (2007-2014): managing the 'far enemy'
  • The Awakening Councils
  • The Arab Spring
  • 5 Iraq 2014-2017: Obama and the Banality of Killing
  • Tyranny and democracy
  • Captivity and liberation
  • Support and its casualties
  • Iraq 2014: civilian deaths almost doubling
  • Iraq in 2015: the moral chaos of war
  • Iraq 2016: wars and casualties
  • Two battles of Fallujah in 2004
  • April 2004: 572-616 killed in siege of Fallujah
  • November 2004: 581-670 killed in nine neighbourhoods.
  • Irregular warfare: insurgency and terrorism
  • 2016: another year of relentless violence
  • Large-scale attacks
  • The 'cubs' and the Islamic State
  • Generation: war
  • Iraq 2017
  • Epilogue: Iraq and Its Casualties Today
  • References
  • Index
  • Back cover.

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