Fantasies of World Order: Why Did the US Invade Iraq in 2003?

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10.2991/assehr.k.220110.143How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Iraq War; Hegemony; Interest Group; Neoconservatives

Abstract

What caused the 2nd Iraq war? The conventional wisdom is that Neoconservatives, Bush’s administrative failures, and domestic interests’ groups have made the war inevitable. However, in contrast, this work argues that though these factors contributed to the US’ long coordinated plans for the war, which emerged as early as 2001, they lack a forceful explanation for the incentives behind the decision. Through our analysis, this work found it was the hegemonic motives that caused the war fundamentally. To make our case, this work examines the causes of the Iraq War from three images, ranging from the level of leaders and domestic groups to a realistic world order, and discovers that the US’s unipolarity fantasy’s intolerance to potential threats triggered the 2003 Iraq War. The main implication of the work is that if the US remains in its hegemonic status and power dominance, it will be compelled to respond to any threats forward and make war possible.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Siyu Huang
AU  - Xinyi Du
AU  - Jiayue Lyu
AU  - Meng Xu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/28
TI  - Fantasies of World Order: Why Did the US Invade Iraq in 2003?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 744
EP  - 757
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.143
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.143
ID  - Huang2022
ER  -