The struggle for Iraq's future how corruption, incompetence and sectarianism have undermined democracy
Many Westerners have offered interpretations of Iraq's nation-building progress in the wake of the 2003 war and the eventual withdrawal of American troops from the country, but little has been written by Iraqis themselves. This forthright book fills in the gap. Zaid Al-Ali, an Iraqi lawyer with...
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New Haven, CT
Yale University Press
2014
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Table of Contents:
- A legacy of oppression and violence
- On the origins of Iraq's new political elites
- Creating a new political order
- A country back from the dead
- Defective politics
- A country left to languish
- The ravages of corruption : the second insurgency
- The third insurgency : environmental disaster
- What is to be done?