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Dividing a Nation

Dividing a Nation Zaid Al-Ali, The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy , New Haven, ct : Yale University Press, 2014. Haider Ala Hamoudi, Negotiating in Civil Conflict: Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq , Chicago, il : University of Chicago Press, 2014. Iraqis living in the west have often sought to influence the political debate about their country’s current affairs, the policy decisions of western governments towards Iraq, or some mix of the two. These politicised members of the diaspora have almost always been influenced and guided by family histories and experiences that are enmeshed in Iraqi political history. For the respective authors of two new books that place at their heart Iraqi constitutional politics after 2003, this certainly is the case. Zaid Al-Ali begins his book, The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy , 1 with a description of his family’s journey as a “contextual backdrop” that led to his own involvement in Iraqi political affairs. 2 Zaid’s father, Salah Al-Ali, was a senior member of the Ba’ath Party when it took power in Iraq in 1968. But Salah soon fell out with his colleagues and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Middle East Law and Governance Brill

Dividing a Nation

Sirri, Omar
Middle East Law and Governance , Volume 6 (3): 347 – Dec 5, 2014
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© 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1876-3367
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Zaid Al-Ali, The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy , New Haven, ct : Yale University Press, 2014. Haider Ala Hamoudi, Negotiating in Civil Conflict: Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq , Chicago, il : University of Chicago Press, 2014. Iraqis living in the west have often sought to influence the political debate about their country’s current affairs, the policy decisions of western governments towards Iraq, or some mix of the two. These politicised members of the diaspora have almost always been influenced and guided by family histories and experiences that are enmeshed in Iraqi political history. For the respective authors of two new books that place at their heart Iraqi constitutional politics after 2003, this certainly is the case. Zaid Al-Ali begins his book, The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy , 1 with a description of his family’s journey as a “contextual backdrop” that led to his own involvement in Iraqi political affairs. 2 Zaid’s father, Salah Al-Ali, was a senior member of the Ba’ath Party when it took power in Iraq in 1968. But Salah soon fell out with his colleagues and

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