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

Author(s)

• Isakhan, Benjamin
• Mako, Shamiran
• Dawood, Fadi

Bibliographic Information

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

edited by Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako, Fadi Dawood

（Library of modern Middle East studies, 195）

I.B. Tauris, 2017

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-315) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The activities of ISIS since 2014 have 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 their evolution. State and Society in Iraq moves beyond a short-sighted analysis to place the complex and contested nature of Iraqi politics within a broader and deeper historical examination. In doing so, the chapters demonstrate that beyond the overwhelming emphasis on failed occupations, cruel tyrants, ethnic separatists and violent religious fanatics, is an Iraqi people who have routinely agitated against the state, advocated for legitimate and accountable government, and called for inter-communal harmony.When, the authors maintain, the Iraqi people are given agency in the complex process of consent, negotiation and resistance that underpin successful state-society relations, the nation can move beyond patterns of oppression and cruelty, of dangerous rhetoric and divisive politics, and towards a cohesive, peaceful and prosperous future - despite the many difficulties and the steep challenges that lie ahead.

Table of Contents

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 Chapter 1: The Ba'qubah Refugee Camp, 1919-22: State-Society Relations in Occupied Iraq Fadi Dawood Chapter 2: State-Society Relations in the Iraqi Urban Sphere of Baghdad and Kirkuk, 1920-58 Arbella Bet-Shlimon Chapter 3: The Government is the Servant of the People': State and Society in the Short Stories of Shakir Khu?bak and Gha'ib ?u'ma Farman Hilla Peled-Shapira Chapter 4: Education Policy in Iraq, 1921-58: Competing Visions of the State Hilary Falb Kalisman Chapter 5: Military-Society Relations in Iraq, 1920-58: 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 Chapter 6: Rural Violence versus Urban Intellectualism: A Paradox of Integration and Emancipation Alda Benjamen and Sargon George Donabed Chapter 7: Ba`thi Iraq in the 1970s: Historiography of Medieval Islam and Contemporary Politics Amatzia Baram Chapter 8: Ba'thist Penetration of Shi'i Religious Institutions Samuel Helfont Part III: Communal Strife and Re-emergent Authoritarianism in Post-2003 Iraq Chapter 9: The Consolidation of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Integrity of the Iraqi State Gareth Stansfield Chapter 10: Political Parties, Elections and the Transformation of Iraqi Politics Since 2003 Marc Lemieux and Shamiran Mako Chapter 11: The Road to the 'Islamic State': State-Society Relations after the US Withdrawal from Iraq Benjamin Isakhan Conclusion: Lessons from the Past for a Future Iraq Benjamin Isakhan and Shamiran Mako

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB29355020
• ISBN:
  • 9781784533199
• LCCN: 2018379593
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 329 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS79.76
  • DC23 : 956.7044/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Iraq -- Politics and government -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Iraq -- Politics and government -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Citizenship -- Iraq
  • LCSH : Democracy -- Iraq
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA25731655