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UNINA9910148765103321 |
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Higgins Jack <1929-> |
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Dark Justice (Sean Dillon Series, Book 12) |
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A fabulous all-new contemporary thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company.Read by Rupert Penry-Jones.Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventureWhen the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's historyIt appears the assassin is British with Muslim connections, and suddenly Dillon is on a trail that leads him to England, Russia and Iraq, where he prepares for the deadliest challenge of his life.The Jack Higgins name is synonymous with action, pace and breath-taking suspense. He has sold over 250 Million copies of his novels and remains one of the world's best-selling writer's of thriller fiction. |
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UNINA9910779429703321 |
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Dawisha Adeed |
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Iraq : A Political History / / Adeed Dawisha |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1-4008-4623-4 |
1-299-16011-5 |
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[With a New afterword by the author] |
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1 online resource (409 p.) |
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HISTORY / Middle East / General |
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Iraq Politics and government 1958- |
Iraq Politics and government 1921-1958 |
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Originally published: 2009. With a new foreword by the author. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-357) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Consolidating the Monarchical State, 1921-1936 -- Chapter 3. Framing Democracy with a Certain Indifference, 1921-1936 -- Chapter 4. The Uncertain Nation, 1921-1936 -- Chapter 5. Turbulence in Governance, 1936-1958 -- Chapter 6. Potholes in the Democratic Road, 1936-1958 -- Chapter 7. Nationalism and the Ethnosectarian Divide, 1936-1958 -- Chapter 8. The Monarchy'S Political System, 1921-1958 -- Chapter 9. The Authoritarian Republic, 1958-1968 -- Chapter 10. The State Rules Without Rules, 1968-2003 -- Chapter 11. Politics in the New Era, 2003- -- Chapter 12. W(h)ither Iraq? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Afterword to the 2013 Edition: So Much Promise, So Many Disappointments -- Index |
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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 American-led invasion--it is as old as Iraq itself. |
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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. Featuring Dawisha's insightful new afterword on recent political developments, 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. |
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