Century of State-Making in Iraq

Dr. Marianna Charountaki is Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Lincoln, UK. Dr. James Moore is a Lecturer in Modern History, University of Leicester, UK.Prof. Liam Anderson is a Professor in Political Science, Wright State University, OH, USA.

• Chapter 1 – A State in the Making: Persistent Impediments to State Cohesion in Iraq.- Chapter 2 –British Parliamentary Opinion and the Future of Iraq: Regional Security and the Question of Southern Kurdistan, c. 1919-1923.- Chapter 3 – Wilson in Versailles and the Kurdish Question.- Chapter 4 – International Law and the British Mandate: the debate about self-determination in the Middle East after 1919.- Chapter 5 – The (Un) Making of a National Hero: The Legacy of Salah ad-Din al Ayyub in Iraq and Kurdistan.- Chapter 6 –Iraqi Women and State Re-Construction: A progressive Wave towards Gender Equality or an Ebbing Wave towards Gender Inequality?.- Chapter 7 – The Moral and Philosophical Dimensions of Ba’athist policy toward the Kurds.- Chapter 8 – Problems of non-implementation in the case of the Iraqi Constitution.- Chapter 9 – The Jigsaw Puzzle of Financial Independence for the Kurdistan Region in A Federal Iraq.- Chapter 10 – Security, Legitimacy and State Building in Contemporary Iraq: The Role of Regional and International Intervention.- Chapter 11 – Fixing Federalism in Iraq.- Chapter 12: Opinion: Towards the Civil State?  The Necessity of Constitutional Reform.- Chapter 13 – Afterword: Long-term perspectives, peregrinations and prospects.