Robert Springborg

Robert Springborg is professor in the department of national security affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School and programme manager for the middle east for the Center for Civil-Military Relations in Monterey, California. His books include (as editor) Oil and Democracy in Iraq (Saqi, 2007); (with James A Brill) Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, ‘Islamic’ and Neo-Liberal Alternatives (Edinburgh University Press, 2009); and (with Clement M Henry) Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2010)

Uncle Sam in Iraq: the war of narratives

Two contradictory narratives of the United States role in Iraq have existed since its forces’ occupation began to sour shortly after the invasion in March-April 2003. The first casts Uncle

By Robert Springborg

/ 19 Mar 2008