Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Development of the Theoretical Perspective -- 1 The Post-Cold War Academic and Intellectual Arguments on the Use of Force by the US: Development of Liberal Cosmopolitan Discourses -- 2 Post-Cold War Realist and Neoconservative Discourses on US Foreign Policy -- Part 2 Discursive Analyses Comprising Factual Data Analysis -- 3 President G.H.W. Bush's Administration and the 1991 Gulf War -- 4 President G.W. Bush's Administration, 9/11, the 2003 Gulf War and 2005 Elections in Iraq -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.