Titlebook: Iraq Between Occupations; Perspectives from 19 Amatzia Baram (Professor Emeritus of Middle East H Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a division

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Iraqi Democracy and the Democratic Vision of ‘Abd al-Fattah Ibrahimulated how the mission of democratizing Iraqi society turned into the current chaos. One prominent explanation was that Iraq was simply beyond redemption, or that its culture was so fathomlessly undemocratic that even the most sincere of efforts could offer no solution. The neoconservative universe,

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Women under the Monarchy: A Backdrop for Post-Saddam Eventsld War I. Scholars, however, in revisiting the period of the British Mandate (1920–1932) or the British-backed monarchy (1921–1958), have almost totally ignored gender issues. This, despite the fact that women’s rights have been a high profile issue. The Bush administration proclaimed women’s rights

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Revisiting the Republic of Fear: Lessons for Research on Contemporary Iraqthin the broader history of Iraq in the twentieth century. How do we make sense of the Ba’thist era? Was this calamity the result of structural deficiencies at the root of the Iraqi nation-building project, or were state and society merely highjacked by a gang of ruthless criminals driven by a total

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Sadr the Father, Sadr the Son, the “Revolution in Shi’ism,” and the Struggle for Power in the , of Nrted is not clear—nor are the deep roots for that rivalry fully known. However, possibly starting in 1992 and until it subsided in 2008, this was the worst family and faction feud that rocked the religious University of Najaf, and by 2010 it was not yet over. Possibly this rivalry is an extension of

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Iraq after the Surgeed by tribal, nationalist, and foreign jihadist elements, which morphed into a sectarian civil war following the February 2006 bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. Unable to halt the mounting violence and facing the prospect of defeat, the United States launched a last-ditch effort in January 20

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Until They Leave: Liberation, Occupation, and Insurgency in Iraqd over Iraq’s imperial and colonial legacies, identity, and viability. For many non-Iraqis and Western political observers, the country was an artificial creation of secret agreements between British and French diplomats eager for booty when World War I ended. Iraqis were primarily Arabs or Kurds, S