State and society in Iraq : citizenship under occupation, dictatorship and democratisation /

The emergence of ISIS since 2014 brought back to centre stage a series of very old and very troubling questions about the integrity and viability of the Iraqi state. However, most analysts have framed recent events in terms of their immediate past and without the contextual background to explain the...

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Corporate Author: Class of 1953 Fund
Other Authors: Dawood, Fadi (Editor), Isakhan, Benjamin, 1977- (Editor), Mako, Shamiran, 1981- (Editor), Mako, Shamiran (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017
London ; New York, NY : 2017
Series:Library of modern Middle East studies ; 195
Library of modern Middle East studies 195
Library of modern Middle East studies 195
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Colonial Rule and the Making of Modern Iraq
  • 1 The Ba'qubah Refugee Camp, 1919-22: State-Society Relations in Occupied Iraq / Fadi Dawood Dawood, Fadi 31
  • 2 State-Society Relations in the Urban Spheres of Baghdad and Kirkuk, 1920-58 / Arbella Bet-Shlimon Bet-Shlimon, Arbella 50
  • 3 "The Government is the Servant of the People": State and Society in the Short Stories of Shakir Khusbak and Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman / Hilla Peled-Shapira Peled-Shapira, Hilla 69
  • 4 Education Policy in Iraq, 1921-58: Competing Visions of the State / Hilary Falb Kalisman Kalisman, Hilary Falb 90
  • 5 Military-Society Relations in Iraq, 1921-58: Competing Roles of the Army / Ibrahim Al-Marashi Al-Marashi, Ibrahim 109
  • Part II Republican Iraq: State-Society Relations Under Authoritarian Rule
  • 6 'Dangerous Liaisons': Abd al-Karim Qasim and the Student Movements of the First Iraqi Republic, 1958-63 / Jordi Tejel Tejel, Jordi 135
  • 7 Assyrians and the Early Ba'thist Period in Iraq; Between State and Non-State Actors / Alda Benjamen Benjamen, Alda, Sargon George Donabed Donabed, Sargon George 156
  • 8 Ba'thi Iraq in the 1970s: Historiography of Medieval Islam and Contemporary Politics / Amatzia Baram Baram, Amatzia 177
  • 9 Ba'thist Penetration of Shi'a Religious Institutions / Samuel Helfont Helfont, Samuel 197
  • Part III Communal Strife and Re Emergent Authoritarianism in Post-2003 Iraq
  • 10 The Consolidation of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Integrity of the Iraqi State / Gareth Stansfield Stansfield, Gareth 217
  • 11 Political Parties, Elections and the Transformation of Iraqi Politics Since 2003 / Marc Lemieux Lemieux, Marc, Shamiran Mako Mako, Shamiran 238
  • 12 The Road to the 'Islamic State': State-Society Relations after the US Withdrawal from Iraq / Benjamin Isakhan Isakhan, Benjamin 260
  • Preface: Whither Iraq? / Peter Sluglett
  • Introduction: State-society relations in Iraq: Negotiating a contested historiography / Benjamin Isakhan and Fadi Dawood
  • Part I: Colonial rule and the making of modern Iraq
  • The Ba'qubah refugee camp, 1919-22: State-society relations in occupied Iraq / Fadi Dawood
  • State-society relations in the urban spheres of Baghdad and Kirkuk, 1920-58 / Arbella Bet-Shlimon
  • 'The government is the servant of the people': State and society in the short stories of Shakir Khusbak and Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman / Hilla Peled-Shapira
  • Education policy in Iraq, 1921-58: Competing visions of the state / Hilary Falb Kalisman
  • Military-society relations in Iraq, 1921-58: Competing roles of the army / Ibrahim Al-Marashi
  • Part II: Republican Iraq: State-society relations under authoritarian rule
  • 'Dangerous liaisons': Abd al-Karim Qasim and the student movements of the first Iraqi republic, 1958-63 / Jordi Tejel
  • Assyrians and the early Ba'thist period in Iraq: Between state and non-state actors / Alda Benjamen and Sargon George Donabed
  • Ba'thi Iraq in the 1970s: Historiography of medieval Islam and contemporary politics / Amatzia Baram
  • Ba'thist penetration of Shi'a religious institutions / Samuel Helfont
  • Part III: Communal strife and re-emergent authoritarianism in post-2003 Iraq
  • The consolidation of the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the integrity of the Iraqi state / Gareth Stansfield
  • Political parties, elections and the transformation of Iraqi politics since 2003 / Marc Lemieux and Shamiran Mako
  • The road to the 'Islamic State': State-society relations after the US withdrawal from Iraq / Banjamin Isakhan
  • Conclusion: Lessons from the past for a future Iraq / Benjamin Isakhan and Shamiran Mako