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    THE ROLE OF INTEREST GROUPS IN THE MAKING OF THE US FOREIGN POLICY : THE CASE OF US INTERVENTION IN IRAQ
    (2012) ZIAYA Rima
    This work examines the extent to which interest groups in the United States are able to influence decision making in the realm of foreign policy. Interest groups are largely considered as the key connection between the citizens and the government which in turn affects their activity as well as being affected with their pressure. The latter was extensively noticed on the domestic area while ignored at the foreign one. The extent of this incidence is subjected to various conditions, primarily, the nature and locus of the decision making as well as political and international events. The present dissertation provides a test to the power gained by interest groups and their ability to share foreign policy outcomes in the contemporary period and highlights the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 as a case study in order to answer the question: To what extent did interest groups influence the US decision to invade Iraq? The example of the American invasion of Iraq reinforces and evidences the comprehensive view about the new relationship between interest group activity and foreign policy and assesses the extent of the access provided toward organized groups. To assess such an assumption the work investigates the different circumstances that were behind the absence of these groups from sharing policy making at different stages in relation to the American domestic and foreign policy changes. Within the Iraq context, the work provides a contemporary assessment of the role played by the Jewish lobby in the United States foreign policy toward Iraq. It further tests the extent to which the Bush administration was subjected to external influence of interest groups on the decision of such an invasion and it eventually concludes that the Iraq invasion of 2003 was the outcome of both interest group activation and other incidents.