num_pages: 283
description: Introduction / Tim Niblock -- the fertile crescent dimension / H.G. Balfour-Paul -- State power and economic class determination and state formation in contemporary Iraq / Joe Stork -- Recent developments in the Kurdish issue / Saa̓d Jawal -- Saddam Husain's political the comparison with Nasser / Peter Mansfield -- The emancipation of Iraqi women / Amal al-Sharqi -- The eradication of illiteracy in Iraq / Alya Sousa -- United States-Iraq a spring that? / Barry Rubin -- Iraqi policies towards the Arab states of the Gulf, 1958-1981 / Tim Niblock -- Economic relations between Iraq and other Arab Gulf states / Naomi Sakr -- Iraqi oil 1961-1976 / Paul Stevens -- Problems of rural development in an oil-rich Iraq 1958-1975 / Robin Theobald and Saa̓d Jawal -- Western, Soviet and Egyptian influences on Iraq's development planning / Rodney Wilson -- The challenge of human resources development in Iraq / J.S. Birks and C. Sinclair -- Industrial development and the decision-making process / John Townsend.
language: English
title: Iraq: The Contemporary State
titlecomplete: Iraq: The Contemporary State
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan