Description - Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East by Oz Hassan
This book generates a greater understanding, and critique, of the George W. Bush administration's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa. That is to say, that it looks at how and why the Bush administration constructed democracy promotion for the Middle East as an American national interest. It then proceeds to demonstrate how new institutions were created, within the American foreign policy bureaucracy, which pursued a particular mode of democratisation that would be congruent with other American national interests. As such, it highlights how the crisis presented by September 11 2001 led to regime change in Afghanistan and Iraq, but more broadly how American policy towards the region had a softer imperial side, which drew on broader economic theories of democratisation and modernisation. Accordingly, whilst the invasion of Iraq was intended to create a "domino effect", institutions such as the Middle East Partnership initiative, the Middle East Free Trade Area and the Broader Middle East North Africa initiative sort to bolster this with neo-liberal market logics being implemented in the region.
As such, the Freedom Agenda contained within it a prescribed method of combating terrorism, but also a method of engaging with and reforming the entire Middle East region more broadly. The monograph details these practices in significantly more depth than available in current literature, and on this basis highlights that a particular understanding of "freedom" underpins America's imperial project in the region; a project trapped between a policy of democratisation and domination.
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