Iraq between occupations

Palgrave Macmillan

2010

vi, 279 pages

978-0230107106

Introduction: Iraq: history reconsidered, present reassessed / Amatzia Baram, Achim Rohde, and Ronen Zeidel -- Part I. Iraq between a nation-state and ethnosectarian divides: a reappraisal: * One Iraq or many: what has happened to Iraqi Identity? / Phebe Marr; The clash of identities in Iraq / Sherko Kirmanj. On the brink: state and nation in Iraqi Kurdistan / Ofra Bengio; Kurdish leadership in post-Saddam Iraq: national challenges and changing conditions / Michael Eppel -- Part II. Aspects of Iraqi history under the monarchy: Iraqi democracy and the democratic vision of ʻAbd al-Fattah Ibrahim / Orit Bashkin; Women under the monarchy: a backdrop for post-Saddam events / Noga Efrati -- Part III. The Ba'th era and beyond: Revisiting the republic of fear: lessons for research in contemporary Iraq / Achim Rohde; Sadr the father, Sadr the son, and the "Revolution in Shi'ism", and the struggle for power in Hawzah of Najaf / Amatzia Baram; On servility and survival: the Sunni opposition to Saddam and the origins of the current Sunni leadership in Iraq / Ronen Zeidel; The performance of the Iraq Armed Forces in Operation Desert Storm and the impact of Desert Storm on its performance in Operation Iraqi Freedom / Pesah Malovany; Management of Iraq's economy pre and post the 2003 war: an assessment / Joseph Sassoon -- Part IV. Iraq after the surge / Michael Eisenstadt; Amateur hour in Iraq: a worm's-eye view on the failure of nation building / A. Heather Coyne; Until they leave: liberation, occupation, and insurgency in Iraq / Judith Yaphe.

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