Iraq after America : strongmen, sectarians, resistance / Joel Rayburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rayburn, Joel, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 643.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 643

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authoritarianism.

Iraq--Politics and government--2003-.

Iraq.

Politics and government.

Authoritarianism--Iraq.

Iraq--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Political science.

Physical Description:

xvi, 302 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, [2014]

Summary:

"More than a decade after the US-led invasion of Iraq, most studies of the Iraq conflict focus on the twin questions of whether the United States should have entered Iraq in 2003 and whether it should have exited in 2011, but few have examined the new Iraqi state and society on its own merits. Iraq after America examines the government and the sectarian and secular factions that have emerged in Iraq since the US invasion of 2003, presenting the interrelations among the various elements in the Iraqi political scene. The book traces the origins of key trends in recent Iraqi history to explain the political and social forces that produced them, particularly during the intense period of civil war between 2003 and 2009. Along the way, the author looks at some of the most significant players in the new Iraq, explaining how they have risen to prominence and what their aims are. The author identifies the three trends that dominate Iraq's post-US political order: authoritarianism, sectarianism, and Islamist resistance, tracing their origins and showing how they have created a toxic political and social brew, preventing Iraq's political elite from resolving the fundamental roots of conflict that have wracked that country since 2003 and before. He concludes by examining some aspects of the US legacy in Iraq, analyzing what it means for the United States and others that, after more than a decade of conflict, Iraq's communities--and its political class in particular--have not yet found a way to live together in peace." -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Roots of the Dawa state

Dawa's road to Nuri Maliki

The new authoritarian regime of Nuri Maliki

The Shia supremacists

The Sunni chauvinists

The Kurdish maximalists

The Iraqi Shia "resistance"

Interregnum, crackdown, and spillover

The enduring dilemmas of Iraq.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817916947

0817916946

OCLC:

879538968

Publisher Number:

40023934378