On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, President G.W. Bush argued
that if setting up democracy in Japan and Germany after WW II was
successful, then it should also be successful in Iraq. This book
provides a detailed comparison of the reconstruction of Japan from
1945 to 1952 with the current reconstruction of Iraq, evaluating
the key factors affecting the success or failure of such
projects.
The book seeks to understand why American officials believed
that extensive social reengineering aiming at seeding democracy and
economic development is replicable, through identifying factors
explaining the outcome of U.S.-led post-conflict reconstruction
projects. The analysis reveals that in addition to the effective
use of material resources of power, the outcome of reconstruction
projects depends on a variety of other intertwined factors, and
Bridoux provides a new analytical framework relying on a Gramscian
concept of power to develop a greater understanding of these
factors, and the ultimate success or failure of these
reconstruction projects.
Appraising the effectiveness of American power in the
contemporary international structure, this work is a significant
contribution to the field and will be of great interest to all
scholars of foreign policy, international relations and conflict
studies.
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