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Title Occupying Iraq : a history of the Coalition Provisional Authority / James Dobbins [and others]
Published Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xlvi, 364 pages) : illustrations
Series RAND Corporation monograph series
Rand Corporation monograph series.
Contents The origin of the CPA -- Building the CPA -- Creating the Governing Council -- Establishing security -- Governing Iraq -- Promoting the rule of law -- Growing the economy -- Running the CPA -- Promoting democracy -- Disarming militias and countering insurgents -- Exit and appraisal
Summary "The American engagement in Iraq has been looked at from many perspectives: the flawed intelligence that provided the war's rationale, the failed effort to secure an international mandate, the rapid success of the invasion, and the long ensuing counterinsurgency campaign. This book focuses on the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority and its administrator, L. Paul Bremer, who governed Iraq from May 2003 to June of the following year. It is based on interviews with many of those responsible for setting and implementing occupation policy, on the memoirs of American and Iraqi officials who have since left office, on journalists' accounts of the period, and on nearly 100,000 never-before-released CPA documents. The book recounts and evaluates the efforts of the United States and its coalition partners to restore public services, reform the judicial and penal systems, fight corruption, revitalize the economy, and create the basis for representative government. It also addresses the occupation's most striking failure: the inability of the United States and its coalition partners to protect the Iraqi people from the criminals and extremists in their midst."--Page 4 of cover
Notes "MG-847-CC"--Page 4 of cover
"The research described in this report was sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Security Research Division."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Bremer, L. Paul.
SUBJECT Bremer, L. Paul fast
Subject Coalition Provisional Authority.
SUBJECT Coalition Provisional Authority fast
Subject Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq
HISTORY -- Military.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Politics and government
Postwar reconstruction
SUBJECT Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004001807
Subject Iraq
USA -- peacebuilding -- Iraq.
Form Electronic book
Author Dobbins, James, 1942-
Coalition Provisional Authority.
International Security and Defense Policy Center.
ISBN 9780833047243
0833047248
1282282816
9781282282810
9786612282812
6612282819