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The Libraries offer the following resource list as a starting place for reading about Iraq, the war on terrorism, and current foreign policy in the Mideast.  The books have been selected with a preference for those published in the recent two years; see the subject headings at the end of the list as a way to identify older items.

For resources on Sept. 11, its aftermath, and biological weapons, see also the Libraries' guide, "Sept. 11: Resources for Understanding."

Unless special locations are noted, items may be found in Memorial's general collections, locations according to this guide.   Before looking for these books on the shelves, users are advised to check circulation status in MARQCAT.  Users may recall books that are currently checked out by clicking on the blue "Recall/Hold" button in the catalog and completing the request procedure.



"A problem from hell": America and the age of genocide. Samantha Power.  (Basic Books, c2002)  HV6322.7 .P69 2002

Ally to adversary: an eyewitness account of Iraq's fall from grace. Rick Francona.  (Naval Institute Press, c1999).  DS79.74 .F73 1999

Anti-American terrorism and the Middle East: a documentary reader. Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, eds.  (Oxford University Press, 2002)  HV6431 .A566 2002

Armed humanitarians: U.S. interventions from northern Iraq to Kosovo. Robert C. DiPrizio.  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)  JZ1480 .D57 2002

An autumn of war: what America learned from September 11 and the war on terrorism. Victor Davis Hanson.  (Anchor Books, 2002)  HV6432 .H377 2002

The BBC reports: on America, its allies and enemies, and the counterattack on terrorism. Jenny Baxter and Malcolm Downing, eds.  (Overlook Press, 2002)  HV6432 .B39 2002

Bin Laden, Islam, and America's new 'war on terrorism'. Assad AbuKhalil.  (Seven Stories Press, 2002)  HV6432.5.T15 A165 2002

Biological weapons [electronic resource] : limiting the threat.Joshua Lederberg, ed.  (MIT Press, c1999)

Bush at war. Bob Woodward.  (Simon & Schuster, c2002)  E903.3 .W66 2002

Confronting Iraq: U.S. policy and the use of force since the Gulf War. Daniel L. Byman, Matthew C. Waxman.  (RAND, 2000)  E183.8.I57 B9 2000

Crises in the contemporary Persian Gulf.Barry Rubin, ed.  (F. Cass, 2002)  DS326 .C75 2002

Deadly arsenals: tracking weapons of mass destruction. Joseph Cirincione.  (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2002)  U793 .C57 2002

Deliver us from evil: peacekeepers, warlords and a world of endless conflict. William Shawcross.  (Simon & Schuster, c2000)  D860 .S48 2000

Disarming Iraq: monitoring power and resistance. Michael V. Deaver.  (Praeger, 2001)  JZ1682 .D43 2001

Does America need a foreign policy?: toward a diplomacy for the 21st century. Henry Kissinger.  (Simon & Schuster, c2001)  JZ1480 .K57 2001

Eagle rules?: foreign policy and American primacy in the twenty-first century. Robert J. Lieber, ed.  (Prentice Hall, c2002)  JZ1480 .E16 2002

The end of the peace process: Oslo and after. Edward W. Said.  (Pantheon Books, 2000)  DS119.76 .S245 2000

Endgame: solving the Iraq problem--once and for all. Scott Ritter.  (Simon & Schuster, c1999)  DS70.95 .R53 1999

Germs: biological weapons and America's secret war. Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad.  (Simon & Schuster, c2001)  UG447.8 .M54 2001

The global journalist: news and conscience in a world of conflict.  Philip Seib (Rowman & Littlefield, c2002) PN4736. S45 2002

The greatest threat: Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, and the crisis of global security.  Richard Butler.  (Public Affairs, c2000)  DS79.755 .B88 2000

The high cost of peace: how Washington's Middle East policy left America vulnerable to terrorism. Yossef Bodansky.  (Forum, 2002)  DS63.2.U5 B6 2002

A history of Iraq. Charles Tripp.  (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2002)  DS79 .T75 2002

Humanitarian challenges and intervention. Thomas G. Weiss, Cindy Collins.  (2nd ed., Westview Press, 2000)  HV553 .W425 2000

Iraq: in the eye of the storm. Dilip Hiro.  (Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, ©2002)  Browsing  DS79.7 .H57 2002

Iraq and the international oil system: why America went to war in the Gulf. Stephen Pelletiere.  (Praeger, 2001)  DS79.719 .P45 2001

Iraq and the war of sanctions: conventional threats and weapons of mass destruction. Anthony H. Cordesma.  (Praeger, 1999)  UA853.I75 C65 1999

Iraq sanctions and suffering [VHS videorecording] 
(Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2000) MEM RESERVES-AVM  DS79.744.S25 I737 2000

Iraq since 1958: from revolution to dictatorship. Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett.  (St. Martin's Press, 2001)  DS79.65 .F37 2001

Iraq under siege: the deadly impact of sanctions and war. Anthony Arnove, ed.  (South End Press, c2000)  HF1586.3 .I73 2000

Iraq's burdens: oil, sanctions, and underdevelopment. Abbas Alnasrawi.  (Greenwood Press, 2002)  HD9576.I72 A6473 2002

Iraq's military capabilities in 2002: a dynamic net assessment. Anthony H. Cordesman.  (CSIS Press, 2002)  UA853.I75 C653 2002

Issues of war and peace. Nancy Gentile Ford.  (Greenwood Press, 2002)  E181 .F675 2002

The narrow path of freedom and other essays. Eugene Davidson.  (University of Missouri Press, c2002)  CB427 .D345 2002

Neighbors, not friends: Iraq and Iran after the Gulf wars. Dilip Hiro.  (Routledge, 2001)  DS79.75 .H57 2001

The new crusade: America's war on terrorism. Rahul Mahajan.  (Monthly Review Press, c2002)  HV6432 .M34 2002

Peacekeeping fiascoes of the 1990s: causes, solutions, and U.S. interests. Frederick H. Fleitz, Jr.  (Praeger, 2002)  JZ6374 .F58 2002

Present dangers: crisis and opportunity in American foreign and defense policy. Robert Kagan and William Kristol, eds.  (Encounter Books, 2000)  E840 .P74 2000

The reckoning: Iraq and the legacy of Saddam Hussein. Sandra Mackey.  (Norton, ©2002)  DS79.65 .M24 2002

Rogue regimes: terrorism and proliferation.  Raymond Tanter.  (St. Martin's Press, 1998)  D412.7 .T26 1998

Rogue states and U.S. foreign policy: containment after the Cold War. Robert S. Litwak.  (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, c2000)  KZ6374 .L58 2000

Romantics at war: glory and guilt in the age of terrorism. George P. Fletcher.  (Princeton University Press, 2002)  U22 .F588 2002

Saddam: the secret life. Con Coughlin.  (Macmillan, 2002) DS79.66 .H87 C65 2002

Saddam defiant: the threat of weapons of mass destruction and the crisis of global security. Richard Butler.  (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000)  UA12.5 .B88 2000

Saddam Hussein: a political biography.  Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi.  (Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1991)  DS79.66.H87 K37 1991

Saddam Hussein: the politics of revenge. Said K. Aburish.  (Bloomsbury-St. Martin's Press, c2000)  DS79.66.H87 A67 2000

Saddam's bombmaker: the terrifying inside story of the Iraqi nuclear and biological weapons agenda. Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein.  (Scribner, c2000)  UA853.I72 H35 2000

Saddam's word: political discourse in Iraq. Ofra Bengio.  (Oxford University Press, 1998)  DS79.7 .B4613 1998

Sanctioning Saddam: the politics of intervention in Iraq. Sarah Graham-Brown.  (I.B. Tauris/MERIP)  DS79.75 .G734 1999

Sanctions and the search for security: challenges to UN action. David Cortright, George A. Lopez.  (L. Rienner Publishers, 2002)  JZ6373 .C67 2002

Security in the Persian Gulf: origins, obstacles, and the search for consensus. Lawrence G. Potter and Gary G. Sick, eds.  (Palgrave, c2002)  UA832 .S44 2001

Targeting Iraq: Sanctions and Bombing in US Policy. Geoff Simons.  (Saqi Books, 2002)  JZ 1480 .A57I72 2002

The terrorism trap: September 11 and beyond. Michael Parenti.  (City Lights Books, ©2002)  E840 .P268 2002

Theater of war.  Lewis Lapham.  (W.W. Norton, 2002)  BROWSING  E902 .L37 2002

The threatening storm : the case for invading Iraq. Kenneth M. Pollack.  (Random House, ©2002)  DS79.75 .P65 2002

The UNSCOM saga: chemical and biological weapons non-proliferation. Graham S. Pearson.  (St. Martin's Press, 1999)  UG447 .P34 1999

War: a primer for Christians. Joseph L. Allen.  (Maguire Center/SMU Press, 2001)  BT736.2 .A44 2001

The war against the terror masters: why it happened. where we are now, how we'll win. Michael A. Ledeen.  (St. Martin's Press, 2002)  BROWSING  HV6432 .L43 2002

War in the age of technology: myriad faces of modern armed conflict. Geoffrey Jensen and Andrew Wiest, eds.  (New York University Press, c2001)  U21.2 .W368 2001

War on Iraq: what team Bush doesn't want you to know. William Rivers Pitt with Scott Ritter.  (Context Books, c2002)  U793 .P58 2002

War plan Iraq: ten reasons against war with Iraq. Milan Rai.  (Verso, 2002)  DS79.755 .R35 2002

Why we fight: moral clarity and the war on terrorism. William J. Bennett.  (Doubleday, ©2002)  HV6432 .B46 2002

 

For additional items, search  MARQCAT Subjects such as the following:
Biological warfare
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-
Intervention (International law)
Iraq [and its subheadings]
Just war doctrine
National security -- United States
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism
United Nations. Special Commission on Iraq
War and society -- United States
War (International law)
War on Terrorism, 2001-
Weapons of Mass Destruction
War -- Moral and ethical aspects.

For current magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, use some of the following databases, accessible to Marquette students from both on- and off-campus locations.  See also the complete list of Electronic Resources.

Congressional Universe: follow links for Hot Topics
CQ Public Affairs Collection
CQ Researcher
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Issues and Controversies@Facts.com
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
ProQuest Research Library

 


Good Web sites for current news:

Selected Internet sites for News
Google's News Directory
Project on Defense Alternatives

and alternative views:

http://iraqjournal.org/
http://electroniciraq.net
http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org/

 

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