Iraq between occupations: perspectives from 1920 to the present

This edited volume represents a re-examination of the most central issues in the history of the Iraqi nation state until the American occupation (1920-2003) and, in the light of that history, a re-evaluation of developments under theoccupation (2003-2008). RONEN ZEIDEL is Fellow in the Centre for Iraq Studies at University of Haifa, Israel. AMATZIA BARAM Professor and Director of the Centre for Iraq Studies at University of Haifa, Israel. ACHIM ROHDE is Research Fellow at the Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany, and a Lecturer at the Asia-Africa-Institute of Hamburg University, Germany. INDICE: - Introduction; 'A.Baram', 'R.Zeidel' & 'A.Rohde' - PART I: IRAQ BETWEEN A NATION STATE AND ETHNO-SECTARIAN DIVIDES: A RE-APPRAISAL - One Iraq or Many: What has happened to Iraqi Identity?; 'P.Marr' - Kurds, Arabs and Iraqis: A History of a Clash of Identities; 'S.Kirmanj' - The Kurdish Phoenix: Nation-Building in a Failed Iraqi Nation-State; 'O.Bengio' - A Kurdish Leadershipin Iraq: Facing the New Challenges, the Danger and the Chances of the Post-Saddam Era; 'M.Eppel - 'PART II: ASPECTS OF IRAQI HISTORY UNDER THE MONARCHY - The Roots of Democratic Thinking in Iraq and their Contemporary Implications: Discourses on Democracy in the Hashemite Period 1921-1958 through the Vision of'Abd al-Fattah Ibrahim'; 'O.Bashkin' - Women under the Monarchy: A Backdrop for Post-Saddam Events; 'N.Efrati - 'PART III: THE BA'TH ERA AND BEYOND - Understanding Ba'thist Iraq? Toward a Comparative Historiography of Dictatorships; 'A.Rohde' - Sadr the Father, Sadr the Son, and the 'Revolution in Shi'ism'; 'A.Baram' - On Servility and Survival: the Sunni Opposition to Saddam and the Origins of the Current Sunni Leadership in Iraq; 'R.Zeidel' - The Iraqi Militaryunder the Ba'th Regime: the Case of the Iraqi Armed Forces in Operation Desert Storm and the Impact of Desert Storm on its Performance in Operation Iraqi Freedom; 'P.Malovany' - Iraq's Economy 2003-2008; 'J.Sassoon' - PART IV: THE USIN IRAQ 2003-2007/8 - The U.S. in Iraq: The Dual Challenge of Insurgent and Sectarian Violence; 'M.Eisenstadt' - Amateur Hour in Iraq: A Worm's Eye View ofthe Failure of Nation Building; 'A.H.Coyne ' - Until They Leave: Liberation, Occupation, and Insurgency in Iraq;' J.Yaphe'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10710-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido