INVENTING IRAQ

INVENTING IRAQ

THE FAILURE OF NATION BUILDING AND A HISTORY DENIED
By TOBY DODGE
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Between 1920 and 1932, Great Britain endeavored unsuccessfully to create a modern democratic state in the region that became known as Iraq. The unwieldy patchwork state it fashioned embodied the imperatives of Whitehall while running roughshod over the political sensibilities of the region's inhabitants. When Britain grew weary of holding together its fractious creation, it hastened Iraq toward independence. Democracy was quickly dispensed with by a series of coups, culminating in 1968 with the Ba'ath Party's siezure of power. Britain's failure, Dodge contends, forms the crucial historical backdrop against which the Bush administration's removal of Saddam Hussein and its aftermath must be understood.

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About the Author

TOBY DODGE is a senior research fellow at the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalization at the University of Warwick, and an associate fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. He has acted as a consultant on Iraq for ABC News and has written for the Guardian. He is co-editor, with Stephen Simon, of Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change.

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