State and Society in Iraq: Citizenship Under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratisation

ISBN-13: 9781784533199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str.

Benjamin Isakhan

Opis

The relentless advance of ISIS in 2014/2015 has brought back to centre stage a series of questions about the nature, and even viability, of the Iraqi state. Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, much scholarly attention has been given to the Iraqi state's early formation and the impact of colonial and post-colonial policies on its development. State and Society in Iraq shifts the focus to state-society relations and assesses how critical junctures in the country's history have affected successive and contemporary interactions. Leading experts offer a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to demonstrate the evolving nature of state-society relations, from the British colonial rule until after the fall of the Ba'athist regime. The in-depth historical analysis documents the nature of the Republican period that followed the 1958 military coup, authoritarianism, and Ba'athist ideology--particularly under the leadership of Saddam Hussein--and the later state building initiatives that included the development of social movements and democratic engagement. Emerging most strongly are the complex ways in which Iraqis of different backgrounds subverted official doctrine and, after the US-led intervention, resisted top-down democratization. The research therefore builds on current historiography to interrogate the complex matrix of consent, negotiation, resistance, and counter-discourse that constitute state-society relations. The book addresses some of the most significant problems Iraq experiences as a post-colonial state and recommends how the challenges facing Iraq's state-society relations can be overcome.

Spis treści

Introduction: State Society Relations in Iraq: Negotiating a Contested HistoriographyBenjamin Isakhan and Fadi DawoodPart I: Colonial Rule and the Making of Modern IraqChapter 1: The Ba'qubah Refugee Camp, 1919-22: State-Society Relations in Occupied IraqFadi DawoodChapter 2: State-Society Relations in the Iraqi Urban Sphere of Baghdad and Kirkuk, 1920-58Arbella Bet-ShlimonChapter 3: The Government is the Servant of the People': State and Society in the Short Stories of Shakir Khu?bak and Gha'ib ?u'ma FarmanHilla Peled-ShapiraChapter 4: Education Policy in Iraq, 1921-58: Competing Visions of the StateHilary Falb KalismanChapter 5: Military-Society Relations in Iraq, 1920-58: Competing Roles of the ArmyIbrahim Al-MarashiPart II: Republican Iraq: State-Society Relations Under Authoritarian RuleDangerous liaisons': Abd al-Karim Qasim and the Student Movements of the First Iraqi Republic, 1958-63Jordi TejelChapter 6: Rural Violence versus Urban Intellectualism: A Paradox of Integration and EmancipationAlda Benjamen and Sargon George Donabed Chapter 7: Ba`thi Iraq in the 1970s: Historiography of Medieval Islam and Contemporary PoliticsAmatzia BaramChapter 8: Ba'thist Penetration of Shi'i Religious InstitutionsSamuel HelfontPart III: Communal Strife and Re-emergent Authoritarianism in Post-2003 IraqChapter 9: The Consolidation of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Integrity of the Iraqi State Gareth StansfieldChapter 10: Political Parties, Elections and the Transformation of Iraqi Politics Since 2003Marc Lemieux and Shamiran MakoChapter 11: The Road to the 'Islamic State': State-Society Relations after the US Withdrawal from IraqBenjamin IsakhanConclusion: Lessons from the Past for a Future IraqBenjamin Isakhan and Shamiran Mako

O autorze

Benjamin Isakhan is Associate Professor of Politics and Policy Studies and Founding Director of POLIS, a research network for Political Science and International Relations at Deakin University, Australia. He is also Adjunct Senior Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics, Discourse (2012) and the editor of six books including, most recently, The Legacy of Iraq: From the 2003 War to the 'Islamic State' (2016). Ben's current research includes a three-year funded project entitled 'Measuring Heritage Destruction in Iraq and Syria'.Shamiran Mako is a lecturer at the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. She received her PhD from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Herpublications include 'Iraq: who's to blame?' in the World Affairs Journal, 'International response to Bahrain's Arab Spring' in e-International Relations and 'Cultural genocide and key international instruments: framing the indigenous experience' in the International Journal of Minority and Group Rights.Fadi Dawood is a senior research fellow at the NATO Association of Canada and Sessional Lecturer at Lakehead University, Orillia Campus. He is a historian of the Modern Middle East with special focus on minoritypopulations in Iraq. His PhD dissertation at SOAS, University of London, examines the Assyrian population in modern Iraq. He has taught Middle East, History and Political Science courses at SOAS, University of London and Lakehead University in Canada.