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The Struggle for Iraq's Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy

Autor Zaid Al-Ali
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 ian 2014
An unbarred account of life in post-occupation Iraq and an assessment of the nation’s prospects for the future

Many Westerners have offered interpretations of Iraq’s nation-building progress in the wake of the 2003 war and the eventual withdrawal of American troops from the country, but little has been written by Iraqis themselves. This forthright book fills in the gap. Zaid Al-Ali, an Iraqi lawyer with direct ties to the people of his homeland, to government circles, and to the international community, provides a uniquely insightful and up-to-date view of Iraq’s people, their government, and the extent of their nation’s worsening problems.
 
The true picture is discouraging: murderous bombings, ever-increasing sectarianism, and pervasive government corruption have combined to prevent progress on such crucial issues as security, healthcare, and power availability. Al-Ali contends that the ill-planned U.S. intervention destroyed the Iraqi state, creating a black hole which corrupt and incompetent members of the elite have made their own. And yet, despite all efforts to divide them, Iraqis retain a strong sense of national identity, Al-Ali maintains. He reevaluates Iraq’s relationship with itself, discusses the inspiration provided by the events of the Arab Spring, and redefines Iraq’s most important struggle to regain its viability as a nation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300187267
ISBN-10: 0300187262
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 12 black-&-white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

Notă biografică

Zaid Al-Ali is a lawyer specializing in comparative constitutional law and international commercial arbitration.  He was a legal adviser to the United Nations in Iraq from 2005 to 2010. He often serves as a commentator on Iraqi and Arab issues for BBC, Al-Jazeera, Channel 4, and the New York Times among others. He lives in Cairo, Egypt.

Recenzii

"A well-researched study of how Iraq has gotten into its current, worsening, and possibly terminal mess . . . Ali's analytical clarity and his inside knowledge fill the gap in understanding Iraq that, for non-Iraqis at least, has widened markedly since America pulled out of its misadventure."—Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of Books

"A devastating picture of the structural political flaws that have brought the country to the point of breakup."—Choice