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Iraq's Shi'a warriors : from battlefield to parliament / Inna Rudolf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rudolf, Inna (Dr), author.
- Series:
- Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East Series
- Identities and geopolitics in the Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hashd al-Shaabi.
- Shiites--Iraq--Political activity.
- Shiites.
- Paramilitary forces--Iraq.
- Paramilitary forces.
- Iraq.
- Iraq--Militia--Political activity.
- Iraq--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2026.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Dr. Inna Rudolf is a Fellow at the Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies in the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
- Summary:
- This book explores how Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Units have evolved from battlefield actors into powerful political and social stakeholders, crafting legitimacy across Iraq's political, religious, and civic spheres. It challenges the proxy warfare narrative, offering an analysis of their complex, locally rooted identity and domestic ambitions.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Dissecting Iraq's polymorphous statehood
- Legitimacy amidst oligopoly on violence
- Devolving violence to auxiliaries
- The primacy of traditional and charismatic authority
- Generating legitimacy
- On the value of shared beliefs
- Paramilitarism in heterarchical orders
- Which definition fits the Iraqi context?
- Why do states use paramilitaries?
- The PMU's rationality
- Navigating the heterarchy
- Contextualising the Hashd's status within the state
- Leveraging the Bourdieuian toolkit
- Unpacking the PMU's practices
- Identifying key roles embraced by the PMUs in their pursuit of legitimacy
- Data collection
- Notes
- Chapter 1: The pioneers of the mobilisation's vanguard
- Badr
- Asa'ib Ahl al-Haqq
- Ḥaraka Ḥizballāh al-Nujabā'
- Kata'ib Hezbollah
- Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
- Saraya al-Khorasani
- Kata'ib al-Imam Ali
- Kata'ib Tayyar al-Risali
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: The institutionalisation of the PMU
- Entry points into the political field
- Entry points into the religious field
- Entry points into the civic field
- The structure of the PMU
- The Iran-aligned camp
- Al-Sadr's peace brigades
- The shrine brigades
- Implications of the PMU's institutionalisation
- Part I: The political field
- Chapter 3: The protector of the state (al-Ḥāris)
- Filling in the security vacuum
- Rubber-stamping the responsibility to protect
- Pursuing state-oriented institutionalisation
- Managing the PMU's pro-state government challengers
- Consolidating the PMU's security mandate
- Chapter 4: The entrepreneur (al-Mubādir)
- The PMU and political entrepreneurship
- Contesting the electoral process.
- The PMU's path to the ballot box
- Making up for electoral miscalculations
- Infiltrating the state's bureaucracy
- Capturing state-owned enterprises
- The PMU and partisan politics
- The PMU and the Fatah coalition
- The PMU and al-Sadr's movement
- The PMU and al-Kadhimi's administration
- The PMU and al-Sudani's administration
- Part II: The religious field
- Chapter 5: The holy warrior (al-Muqaddas)
- A multifaceted religious mandate
- The Sadrists within the PMU
- The resistance factions
- Chapter 6: The resistance force (al-Muqāwim)
- The PMU's ties to Iran
- The historical bond
- The religious links
- The PMU and the 'Axis of Resistance'
- The PMU's attitude towards the IRGC
- The PMU's attitude towards the Hezbollah
- The PMU's attitude towards the Assad regime
- PMU's attitude towards the Houthi rebels
- Shared antagonisms
- Anti-Americanism
- Condemnation of Israel
- Animosity towards Saudi Arabia
- Part III: The civic field
- Chapter 7: The 'inclusive' guard (al-Shāmil)
- Sunni mobilisation within the PMU
- The tribal hashd
- Sunnis in the Shiʿa ranks
- The mobilisation of Iraq's minorities
- Chapter 8: The service provider (al-Khādim)
- The PMU's humanitarian engagement
- Martyrs' families and wounded fighters
- Facilitating the return of internally displaced individuals
- Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)
- Humanitarian supplies provision and technical assistance
- Disaster relief
- Waste abatement
- Medical care and COVID-19 response
- The Hashd brand: an aggregate of practices
- Lessons for addressing 'hybrid' actors
- Whither the Hashd?
- Selected interviews
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- ISBN:
- 1-5261-9305-1
- 1-5261-9307-8
- 9781526193056
- OCLC:
- 1579001235
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