Open AccessWarum Irak?
Author(s) -
Robert Brenner
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v37i149.502
Subject(s) - geopolitics , adventure , context (archaeology) , foreign policy , political science , administration (probate law) , epoch (astronomy) , middle east , political economy , history , economy , economic history , sociology , law , economics , politics , astronomy , stars , physics , archaeology , art history
If we look at the Iraq war in terms of the economic and geopolitical interests that drove US imperialism throughout the postwar epoch, the current adventure of the Bush administration in the middle east remains inexplicable. Instead, we have to understand the current US-foreign policy in the context of domestic class struggles and the emergence of the far right in the US.