Iraq : : A Political History / / Adeed Dawisha.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dawisha, Adeed,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: With a New afterword by the author
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 3 tables.

With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord, floundering in the face of deep ethno-sectarian divisions that have impeded the creation of a viable state and the molding of a unified Iraqi identit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Consolidating the Monarchical State, 1921–1936
• Chapter 3. Framing Democracy with a Certain Indifference, 1921–1936
• Chapter 4. The Uncertain Nation, 1921–1936
• Chapter 5. Turbulence in Governance, 1936–1958
• Chapter 6. Potholes in the Democratic Road, 1936–1958
• Chapter 7. Nationalism and the Ethnosectarian Divide, 1936–1958
• Chapter 8. The Monarchy’S Political System, 1921–1958
• Chapter 9. The Authoritarian Republic, 1958–1968
• Chapter 10. The State Rules Without Rules, 1968–2003
• Chapter 11. Politics in the New Era, 2003–
• Chapter 12. W(h)ither Iraq?
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Afterword to the 2013 Edition: So Much Promise, So Many Disappointments
• Index