Iraq

Decision to invade Iraq in 2003
The purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of global conditions, internal characteristics and the actor leadership when making decisions which can beaffected by these three factors. In this particular paper the relative influence of these three will be analysis in the decision of invade Iraq in 2003, in order to argue which level was most critical inshaping the outcomes. For better understanding farther in the discussion is important to make distinction of the level of analysis we are going to pay attention through the assessment. World politicsprovides an analytic set of categories to help make interpretive sense of multiple causes that explain why international events and circumstances occur. This classification distinguishes individualinfluences, which refer to the personal characteristics of humans, including those in charge of making significant decisions on behalf of the state and nonstate actors, as well as normal citizens whosebehavior has important political consequences. It also include state or internal influences that consist of the reliable decision-making units that govern states’ foreign policy processes and theinternal attributes of those states, which both shape and hold back leaders’ foreign policy choices. Last but not least are the global influences for the system as a whole, referring to the interactions ofthe states and nonstates actors on the global theater whose behavior in the end shape the international political system and the levels of disagreement and cooperation that distinguish worldpolitics. (Kegley, 2013, 14-15)
In order to visualize as a whole the picture of what lead the decision of invade Iraq in 2003 is important to look at what were the global conditions at that point. Globalconditions are important because those conditions provide the setting for the international decision making process. The current global circumstances define the decisional situation, provoking the...