TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herring,Eric
AU  - Rangwala,Glen
TI  - Iraq in fragments: the occupation and its legacy 
T2  - Crises in world politics
SN  - 9780801444579
U1  - 956.704431 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Postwar reconstruction
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Insurgency
KW  - Counterinsurgency
KW  - Coalition Provisional Authority
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2003-
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 2001-
KW  - MASPPSS
KW  - September2019
N1  - "Originally published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co."--CIP data; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "When the United States led the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it expected to be able to establish a prosperous liberal democracy with an open economy that would serve as a key ally in the region. It sought to engage Iraqi society in ways that would defeat any challenge to that state-building project and U.S. guidance of it. Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala argue that state building in Iraq has been crippled less by preexisting weaknesses in the Iraqi state, Iraqi sectarian divisions, or U.S. policy mistakes than by the fact that the U.S. has attempted - with only limited success - to control the parameters and outcome of that process. They explain that the very nature of U.S. state building in Iraq has created incentives for unregulated local power struggles and patron-client relations. Corruption, smuggling, and violence have resulted." "Placing the occupation within the context of regional, global, and U.S. politics, Herring and Rangwala demonstrate how the politics of co-option, coercion, and economic change have transformed the lives and allegiances of the Iraqi population. As uncertainty about the future of Iraqi persists, this volume provides a much-needed analysis of the deeper forces that give meaning to the daily events in Iraq."--Jacket
ER  -