The struggle for Iraq
Subtitle: a view from the ground up
By: Thomas M. Renahan
Publisher: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9781612348827
Subjects: Political corruption; Politics and government; Democracy; Postwar reconstruction
Description: A political scientist's firsthand report on Iraq and his work with his Iraqi staff to promote democracy and fight corruption, from the days of the Coalition Provisional Authority to the present, and his recommendations for American policy-makers based on the lessons learned.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Southern Iraq. An American advisor in the new Iraq ; The campaign for democracy ; Democracy and the culture of violence ; Bottoming out; title: Baghdad and beyond. "Welcome back to your country" ; Islam and democracy in the new Iraq ; The struggle to reduce corruption ; Extending the anti-corruption struggle to the national level ; The struggle for human rights ; The struggle to protect civil society organizations ; The personal meaning of terrorism ; The day the music died ; Sinking your own ship ; The instinct to control ; USAID and lessons learned in Iraq; title: Kurdistan from the inside. The Kurds, red, white, and blue and shades of gray ; A ministry from the ground up ; Reforming a ministry, starting low, aiming high; title: America and the future of Iraq. Picking up the pieces in a shattered country ; Winning the endgame in Iraq ; Drawing lines in the sand ; The American from Iraq.