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The Struggle for Iraq's Future : How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism have Undermined Democracy / Zaid Al-Ali.
LIBRA DS79.769 .A395 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Al-Ali, Zaid, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- Political corruption.
- Iraq--Politics and government--2003-.
- Iraq.
- Politics and government.
- Political corruption--Iraq.
- Iraq--Social conditions--21st century.
- Iraq--Economic conditions--1991-.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Contents:
- 1 A legacy of oppression and violence 17
- 2 On the origins of Iraq's new political elites 39
- 3 Creating a new political order 75
- 4 A country back from the dead 103
- 5 Defective politics 125
- 6 A country left to languish 161
- 7 The ravages of corruption: The second insurgency 189
- 8 The third insurgency: Environmental disaster 219
- 9 What is to be done? 243.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300187267
- 0300187262
- OCLC:
- 870165147
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