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Introduction: Why Did The United States Invade Iraq? / Jane K. Cramer And A. Trevor Thrall -- Explaining The War In Iraq / Robert Jervis -- Ideas, American Grand Strategy, And The War In Iraq / Colin Dueck -- Ideas And Entrepreneurs: A Constructivist Explanation Of The Iraq War / Andrew Flibbert -- Explaining The Iraq War: The Israel Lobby Theory / Jerome Slater -- Neoconservatism And American Hegemony / Michael Lind -- Blood For Oil, In Iraq And Elsewhere / Michael Klare -- Oil And The Decision To Invade Iraq / John S. Duffield -- Tony Blair Nurtures The Special Relationship / Jane M.o. Sharp -- In Pursuit Of Primacy: Why The United States Invaded Iraq / Jane K. Cramer And Edward C. Duggan. Edited By Jane K. Cramer And A. Trevor Thrall. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.