Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The Us in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention - Hardcoverby Roger D. Petersen (Author) The definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war. In Death, Dominance, and State Building, the eminent scholar of conflict Roger D. Petersen provides the first comprehensive analytic history of post invasion Iraq. Although the war is almost universally derided as one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of the post Cold War era, Petersen argues that the course and conduct of the conflict is