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Lily Hamourtziadou’s investigation into civilian victims during the conflicts that followed the US-led coalition’s 2003 invasion of Iraq provides important new perspectives on the human cost of the War on Terror. From early fighting to the withdrawal and return of coalition troops, the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS, the book explores the scale and causes of deaths and places them in the contexts of power struggles, US foreign policy and radicalisation. Casting fresh light on not just the conflict but international geopolitics and the history of Iraq, it constructs a unique and insightful human security approach to war.

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Introduction: Human Security and the Emergence of Body Counts; The Long Journey to the War on Terror; The Rising Violence: Writing the War 2006–2007; The Beginning of the End of Sectarian Violence? Writing the War 2008–2009; Iraq 2010–2013; Iraq 2014–2017: Obama and the Banality of Killing; Epilogue: Iraq and Its Casualties Today.

Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 16 December 2020
      ISBN-13 9781529206722
      978-1529206722
      ISBN-10 1529206723
      Also in:
      Terrorism, armed struggle

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Lily Hamourtziadou’s investigation into civilian victims during the conflicts that followed the US-led coalition’s 2003 invasion of Iraq provides important new perspectives on the human cost of the War on Terror. From early fighting to the withdrawal and return of coalition troops, the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS, the book explores the scale and causes of deaths and places them in the contexts of power struggles, US foreign policy and radicalisation. Casting fresh light on not just the conflict but international geopolitics and the history of Iraq, it constructs a unique and insightful human security approach to war.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Human Security and the Emergence of Body Counts; The Long Journey to the War on Terror; The Rising Violence: Writing the War 2006–2007; The Beginning of the End of Sectarian Violence? Writing the War 2008–2009; Iraq 2010–2013; Iraq 2014–2017: Obama and the Banality of Killing; Epilogue: Iraq and Its Casualties Today.

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