Rethinking Nation and Nationalism POMEPS Studies 14 — June 2, 2015 You couldn’t swing a dead imperialist last summer without hitting…
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Iraq
Iraqi nationalism and the Iran-Iraq War
By Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University *This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop, February 6, 2015 Who…
Continue ReadingKurds, state elites, and patterns of nationhood in Iraq and Turkey
By Serhun Al, University of Utah * This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop held at…
Continue Reading“Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East” – A Conversation with Joel S. Migdal
Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson…
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Iraq Between Maliki and the Islamic State
Iraq Between Maliki and the Islamic State POMEPS Briefing 24 — July 9, 2014 Iraq’s long-simmering political conflicts and violence…
Continue ReadingPOMEPS Background on Iraq’s Crisis
* Update: The essays in POMEPS Briefing #24 Iraq Between Maliki and the Islamic State offer a variety of perspectives on Iraq’s…
Continue ReadingAl-Ali: The Struggle for Iraq’s Future
Zaid Al-Ali has recently published The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy (Yale University Press).…
Continue ReadingSerena: It Takes More than a Network
Chad C. Serena recently published It Takes More than a Network: The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation (Stanford University Press). In It…
Continue ReadingSeeking to explain the rise of sectarianism in the Middle East: The case study of Iraq
By Toby Dodge, London School of Economics and Political Science * This memo was prepared for the “Visions of Gulf…
Continue ReadingPOMEPS Conversations: David Patel (S. 1, Ep. 6)
#6 – October 24, 2012. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science,…
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