This article explores the George W. Bush Administration’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. A decision that has stirred intense political and academic debates both internationally and within the United States ever since. Mostly, due to the reasons given by the administration to justify the invasion and due to the legitimacy of the intelligence these justifications were based on.
What was the Terror, how was it operated and, most importantly, how could it emerge from a political system that claimed to be based on concepts like virtue, rule of law and the rights of man? In this article Felix Mayer presents ideological aspects of the Terror, one of the most extensively discussed episodes of the French Revolution.
Felix Mayer studies law and history at the University of Vienna
Fortid er et historisk fagtidsskrift og en ikke-kommersiell virksomhet stiftet 2004. Fortid er en arena for formidling av historie til den historieinteresserte allmennhet. Redaksjonen er tilknyttet historiestudiet ved Universitetet i Oslo.
