The Economic Development of Iraq
Author : World Bank
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Iraq
ISBN :
Author : World Bank
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Iraq
ISBN :
Author : Phebe Marr
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813382142
Uses United Nations reports, Iraqi government records, and interviews with Iraqi educators, writers, and ordinary citizens to present a history of modern Iraq, from the construction of the modern state in 1920 through today.
Author : Adeed Dawisha
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0691139571
With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord, floundering in the face of deep ethno-sectarian divisions that have impeded the creation of a viable state and the molding of a unified Iraqi identity. Yet as Adeed Dawisha shows in this superb political history, the story of a fragile and socially fractured Iraq did not begin with the invasion--it is as old as Iraq itself. Dawisha traces the history of the Iraqi state from its inception in 1921 following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and up to the present day. He demonstrates how from the very beginning Iraq's ruling elites sought to unify this ethnically diverse and politically explosive society by developing state governance, fostering democratic institutions, and forging a national identity. Dawisha, who was born and raised in Iraq, gives rare insight into this culturally rich but chronically divided nation, drawing on a wealth of Arabic and Western sources to describe the fortunes and calamities of a state that was assembled by the British in the wake of World War I and which today faces what may be the most serious threat to survival that it has ever known. Iraq is required reading for anyone seeking to make sense of what's going on in Iraq today, and why it has been so difficult to create a viable government there.
Author : Gunter, Frank R.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1789906075
The second edition of The Political Economy of Iraq is as comprehensive and accessible as the first with updated data and analysis. Frank R. Gunter discusses in detail how the convergence of the ISIS insurgency, collapse in oil prices, and massive youth unemployment produced a serious political crisis in 2020. This work ends with a discussion of key policy decisions that will determine Iraq’s future. This volume will be a valuable resource for anyone with a professional, business, or academic interest in the post-2003 political economy of Iraq.
Author : Hala Mundhir Fattah
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Iraq
ISBN : 0816057672
Describes the history of Iraq, from its beginnings as the Sumarian civilization in Mesopotamia through the present day.
Author : Jordi Tejel
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9814390550
The modern history of Iraq is punctuated by a series of successive and radical ruptures (coups d'etat, changes of regime, military adventures and foreign invasions) whose chronological markers are relatively easy to identify. Although researchers cannot ignore these ruptures, they should also be encouraged to establish links between the moments when the breaks occur and the longue durée, in order to gain a better understanding of the period.Combining a variety of different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, this collection of essays seeks to establish some new markers which will open fresh perspectives on the history of Iraq in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and suggest a narrative that fits into new paradigms. The book covers the various different periods of the modern state (the British occupation and mandate, the monarchy, the first revolutions and the decades of Ba'thist rule) through the lens of significant groups in Iraq society, including artists, film-makers, political and opposition groups, members of ethnic and religious groups, and tribes.
Author : Frédéric Bozo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0231801394
In March 2003, the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq to put an end to the regime of Saddam Hussein. The war was launched without a United Nations mandate and was based on the erroneous claim that Iraq had retained weapons of mass destruction. France, under President Jacques Chirac and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, spectacularly opposed the United States and British invasion, leading a global coalition against the war that also included Germany and Russia. The diplomatic crisis leading up to the war shook both French and American perceptions of each other and revealed cracks in the transatlantic relationship that had been building since the end of the Cold War. Based on exclusive French archival sources and numerous interviews with former officials in both France and the United States, A History of the Iraq Crisis retraces the international exchange that culminated in the 2003 Iraq conflict. It shows how and why the Iraq crisis led to a confrontation between two longtime allies unprecedented since the time of Charles de Gaulle, and it exposes the deep and ongoing divisions within Europe, the Atlantic alliance, and the international community as a whole. The Franco-American narrative offers a unique prism through which the American road to war can be better understood.
Author : Edith Tilton Penrose
Publisher : London : E. Benn ; Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Iraq
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Salter
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Economic development
ISBN :
Author : Toby Dodge
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231131674
Dodge offers a sobering look back at the first attempt by a Western power to remake Iraq in its own image.