Iraq
Subtitle: people, history, politics
By: Gareth Stansfield
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; Polity
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780745649290; 9780745649306
Subjects: Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : artificiality, identity, dictatorship and state-building; title: Legacies of civilizations and empires; title: State formation, monarchy and mandate, 1918-1932; title: Conceptualizing political mobilization in Iraq; title: From authoritarian to totalitarian state, 1933-1979; title: Iraq at war, 1979-1989; title: The pariah state, 1989-2003; title: Regime change, 2003-2007; title: From the brink to the brink, 2007-2014; title: The Islamic State, the Kurdistan region and Shi'i Iraq; title: Conclusion : the passing of thresholds and the emergence of three "states."