The point of departure / Robin Cook
2003, First Edition. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #330576
ISBN: 0743252551
Physical description; 368 pages ; 25 cm. Contents; Why Parliament must modernise -- Democracy and the House of Lords -- The US neo-con battle plan -- Parliament and press: a vicious cycle -- Lords reform: from heredity to patronage? -- Britain and Washington -- The West's complicity with Saddam -- Britain and Europe -- Parliament and parties -- The Euro: collateral damage of Iraq -- Parliament's right to vote on war -- The UN: the first casualty of war -- The September dossier: intelligence or propaganda? -- Modernisation of Parliament: the summing up -- Containment: a strategy that worked -- Misreading the public mood -- Lords reform: lost among the options -- Saddam and al-Qa'ida: the missing link -- Humanitarian intervention and the UN -- The second term: a missed opportunity -- How real a threat? Subjects; Cook, Robin F. Blair, Tony (1953-). Cook, Robert Finlayson (1946-2005). Labour Party (Great Britain). Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Legislators Great Britain ; Biography. Politicians Great Britain ; Diaries. Iraq War, (2003-2011). Legislators Great Britain. Great Britain Politics and government (1997-). Great Britain Relations United States. United States Relations Great Britain. Great Britain Relations Iraq. Iraq Relations Great Britain. Great Britain. Iraq. United States. Iraq Foreign relations Great Britain. Great Britain Politics and government 91997-2007). Great Britain Relations United States. Great Britain Relations Iraq. Genre; Biography.
Price: €10.00