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1 online resource (405 pages) |
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CSIS Reports |
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CSIS report.
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| Contents |
Iraq in Crisis; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; I. INTRODUCTION; Historical Background; The Iran-Iraq War; The 1991 Gulf War; The 2003 Invasion of Iraq; The Aftermath of the Invasion; 2007-2011: A Shift to More Realistic Goals; The Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA); The Steadily More Dominant Impact of Iraq's Internal Political Divisions; II. VIOLENCE IN IRAQ: THE GROWING RISK OF SERIOUS CIVIL CONFLICT; The Challenges that Shape Iraq's Violence; Analyzing Iraq's Growing Levels of Internal Violence |
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The Pressures Underling the Statistics on Rising ViolenceDivided Sunni Voices; Harith al-Dari and the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS); The Role of Jordan; The Mixed Impact of the Syrian Civil War; The Interaction Between Sectarian and Ethnic Violence; Measuring Current Trends as "Vectors," Rather than Absolute Numbers; The Other Limits to the Data On rising Violence; The Rise in Violence in 2012-2013: How Much is Too Much?; Statistical Trends Versus Human Impacts; III. VIOLENCE AND CASUALTY TREND ESTIMATES THROUGH 2012; Quantifying the Trends in Iraq; Regional Patterns in Violence |
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The Impact of Al Qaeda and Iraq's MilitiasAl Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)/Islamic State of Iran and Syria (ISIS); Other Violent Movements and Militias; IV. THE 2013 SURGE IN VIOLENCE AND NASCENT CIVIL WAR; Rising Numbers of Dead and Wounded; UN Interpretations of the Data; Refugees: The Other Casualties; Broad Estimates of Refugees; Rising Trends at the End of 2013/Early 20145; Guessing at the Full Human Impact; Responsibility: State Abuses of Power versus the Continuing Role of Violent Extremist Groups; V. IRAQ'S CRISIS IN LEADERSHIP AND POLITICS; The Politics of Violence or the Violence of Politics? |
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The First Round of Iraqi Governments and ElectionsThe January 2009 Governorate Elections; The March 2010 Parliamentary Elections; Non-Government by Paralysis; The Erbil Agreement (or Lack Thereof); Prime Minister Maliki's Steadily More Repressive Efforts to Consolidate Power; The Mutlaq Case; The Hashimi Case; The Usama Abdu'l Aziz al-Nujayfi Case; The Rafi al-Issawi Case; The "Death" of the Erbil Agreement; Sect, Ethnicity, and the Challenge of Federalism; A Constantly Evolving Political Crisis at the Top; Shi'ite versus Sunni Divisions in 2012; Steadily Growing Tensions in 2013 |
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The Crisis in the West at the End of 2013Hope for the Future? The 2014 General Elections; The Sunni Role and Movement Towards a National Government; Kurdish Issues; Shi'ite Unity; VI. THE IMPACT OF FAILED GOVERNANCE; World Bank Governance Ranking; State Department Iraq Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013 (issued February 2014); The UN Analysis; Protests, Popular Dissatisfaction, and the Role of Politics; "A Pox on all their Houses": Corruption in Iraq; The Corruption Crisis in Iraq; Corruption and Popular Protests; The September 2013 SIGIR Report |
| Summary |
Iraq is a nation in crisis bordering on civil war. The country now faces growing violence, a steady rise in Sunni Islamist extremism, an increasingly authoritarian leader that favors Iraq's Sunnis, and growing ethnic tension between Arabs and Kurds Iraq in Crisis examines Iraq's problems in 2014 and projects possible future trends |
| Notes |
Growing Corruption in the Security Services |
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Print version record |
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Internal security -- Iraq
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Internal security
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004001807
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| Subject |
Iraq
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Khazai, Sam
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| ISBN |
9781442228566 |
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1442228563 |
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