The Legacy of Iraq: From the 2003 War to the 'Islamic State'

ISBN-13: 9781474417914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str.

Benjamin Isakhan

Opis

The Legacy of Iraq' critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in peace and prosperity. It argues that mistakes made by the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set a sequence of events in motion that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, the Middle East and for the rest of the world. Today, as the nation faces perhaps its greatest challenge in the wake of the devastating advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and another US-led coalition undertakes renewed military action in Iraq, understanding the complex and difficult legacies of the 2003 war could not be more urgent. Ignoring the legacies of the Iraq war and denying their connection to contemporary events could mean that vital lessons are ignored and the same mistakes made again.

Spis treści

Part I: The Aftermath of War: Strategic Decisions and Catastrophic Mistakes; 1.The De-Baathification of post-2003 Iraq: Purging the Past for Political Power, Benjamin Isakhan; 2. The Contested Politics of Iraq’s Oil Wealth, Philippe Le Billon; 3. Torture at Abu Ghraib: Non-disclosure and Impunity, Aloysia Brooks; Part II: Iraqi Politics since Saddam; 4.Shattering the Shia: A Maliki Political Strategy in Post-Saddam Iraq, Benjamin Isakhan; 5. The Dangerous Legacy of a Flawed Constitution: Resolving Iraq’s Kurdish ‘Problem’, Liam Anderson; 6. Between ‘Aqalliya’ and ‘Mukawin’: Understanding Sunni Political Attitudes in Post-Saddam Iraq, Ronen Zeidel; 7. Post-Withdrawal Prospects for Iraq’s ‘Ultra-Minorities’, Nicholas Al-Jeloo; Part III: The Plight of Iraqi Culture and Civil Society; 8. Doing Democracy in Difficult Times: Oil Unions and the Maliki Government, Benjamin Isakhan; 9. ‘If you are female, you risk being attacked’: Digital Selves, Warblogs and Women’s Rights in post-Invasion Iraq, Perri Campbell and Luke Howie; 10. The Impact of Coalition Military Operations on Archaeological Sites in Iraq, Diane C. Siebrandt; Part IV: Regional and International Consequences of the Iraq War; 11. Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq: Internal and External Displacement, Howard Adelman; 12. The Shia Ascendency in Iraq and the Sectarian Polarisation of the Middle East, Ranj Alaaldin; 13. Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq: The Politics of Protection and Rescue, Binoy Kampmark; 14. Iraq, the Illusion of Security and the Limits to Power, Joseph A. Camilleri; The Iraq Legacies and the Roots of the ‘Islamic State’, Benjamin Isakhan; Index.