Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Hiro Katsumata -- Overall Findings and the Structure of the Volume -- The Way Forward: Alternative Views for Lively Policy Debates -- Chapter 1. The Future of Iraq Eric Herring -- Introduction -- History: Continuity and Change -- Politics: Ethno-Sectarianism and Policy Programs -- Armed Conflict and Peace -- The Economy: Poverty and Prosperity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Regional Order in the Middle East Louise Fawcett -- Introduction -- Order in the Middle East: Past and Present -- The Iraq War and Order: Problems -- Domestic -- Intra-regional -- Extra-regional -- Problems summary -- The Iraq War: Implications -- Domestic -- Intra-regional -- Extra-regional -- Remedies -- Domestic -- Intra-regional -- Extra-regional -- Conclusion: Towards a New Regional Order in the Middle East? -- Chapter 3. Just Another Liberal War? Western Interventionism and the Iraq War Nicholas Kitchen and Michael Cox -- Introduction -- The Liberal Zeitgeist -- A Liberal Split? -- Conclusion - Liberal Overstretch -- Chapter 4. The Crisis in Global Governance After the Iraq War David Armstrong -- Introduction -- The Nature of Global Governance -- The Crisis in Global Governance -- Ways Forward? -- Cosmopolitanism -- Multilateralism and the rule of law -- UN reform -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Terrorist Threat in Iraq: Origins, Development and Impact Rohan Gunaratna -- Introduction -- The Context -- Background -- The Case Against Iraq -- Origins and Development of Threat Groups -- The Threat Landscape -- Ansar al Islam fi Kurdistan (Ansar al Islam) -- Tanzim Qaedat fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (al-Qaeda in Iraq) -- Response -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.