Also, see Ahsan's paper in Security Studies on the topic (free/OA):https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2019.1551567 …
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Pre-war strategy made evident and calculated use of speech acts — ie: performing the existential risk to a 'complex' of referent objects — so it shouldn't be too surprising that the war itself was in part a sort of speech act; making the driving ideology materialise in practice.
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Iraq War was held within the broader ideology of War on Terror — which is ongoing — so research into the various driving forces is important work, so that we can better understanding foreign policy & shifting power dynamics (which classical IR has fuck all to say about).
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