Post Saddam Iraq

ISBN-13: 9781845194673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 332 str.

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Opis

Post-Saddam Iraq is the first comprehensive attempt to describe and analyze the major developments in Iraq from the US-led invasion until 2010. It is the product of specialists in the history of Iraq, the Arab and Muslim world, with a wide range of views of Iraq s past and present. The main focus is the internal political scene increasingly developing along ethnic-sectarian and religious lines (Shiis and Sunnis, Kurds and Arabs) discussed in the context of re-emerging Iraqi national identity. Other major developments, not unrelated to politics, are also addressed: women s rights and economic trends. Post-Saddam Iraq provides an important external, international dimension to Iraq s post-war development through discussion of the central role played by the Iranian regime and its deep and multi-faceted involvement in the Iraqi internal scene; the ambivalent relations with Turkey, which concurrently serves as the main terrestrial channel of trade and economic ties with the world; and Iraq s persisting marginal position in the affairs of the Arab world. The political developments within Iraq are discussed up to the most recent events (December 2010), when a new government was set up. It remains to be seen whether the former centralist policies of the prime minister will prevail in a state which is gradually disposing of the American military presence, assuming command over its unsolved problems of security and daily life as well as of its future stability."