From Desolation to Reconstruction

Iraq's Troubled Journey
Herausgeber: Lamani, Mokhtar; Momani, Bessma

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7 Iraq's Economy and Its Brain Drain after the 2003 Invasion Joseph Sassoon In this chapter, Sassoon begins with a discussion of Iraq's economic development after the US invasion and reflects especially on the failed post-invasion policies and resulting brain drain of Iraq's professional class. Providing new evidence and data on the socio-economic situation of Iraqis is a key contribution of the chapter.

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• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781554582297
• ISBN-10: 1554582296
• Artikelnr.: 28888411

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Table of Contents for
From Desolation to Reconstruction: Iraq's Troubled Journey, edited by
Mokhtar Lamani and Bessma Momani
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction Mokhtar Lamani and Bessma Momani
Iraq under Siege: Politics, Society and Economy, 1990-2003 Peter Sluglett
Inching Forward: Iraqi Federalism at Year Four David Cameron
The Struggle for Autonomy and Decentralization: Iraqi Kurdistan David
Romano
Armed Forces Based in Iraqi Kurdistan: A Lens to Understand the Post-Saddam
Era Maria Fantappié
The Extinction of Iraqi Minorities: Challenge or Catastrophe? Mokhtar
Lamani
Iraq's Economy and Its Brain Drain after the 2003 Invasion Joseph Sassoon
IRFFI: A Multi-Donor Initiative Carla Angulo-Pasel
Iraq's Tangled Web of Debt Restructuring Bessma Momani and Aidan Garrib
The Iraq War and (Non)Democratization in the Arab World Rex Brynen
Debating the Issues: A Roundtable Report Carla Angulo-Pasel
Reinventing Iraq: Binding the Wounds, Reconstructing a Nation Nathan C.
Funk
List of Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Carla Angulo-Pasel is a Research Officer at The Centre for International
Governance Innovation (CIGI), where she coordinates global and human
security projects and oversees North American governance projects. She
holds a Master of Arts degree in political science, specializing in
international relations, from Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research
interests focus on the implications of intra-state conflict on internally
displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees.
Rex Brynen is Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He has
authored, edited, or co-edited eight books on Middle East politics,
including, Persistent Permeability? Regionalism, Localism, and
Globalization in the Middle East (Ashgate, 2004) and Political
Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World (Lynne Rienner, 1995
and 1998).
David Cameron, FRSC, is Chair and Professor of Political Science at the
University of Toronto. His professional career has been divided between
public service-in Ottawa and at Queen's Park, Ontario-and academic life. A
long-time student of Canadian federalism and Quebec nationalism, in the
last decade he has turned his attention to ethno-cultural relations and
constitution making in emerging or potential federal countries, such as
Iraq and Sri Lanka.
Maria Luisa Fantappié graduated from the department of Middle Eastern
studies at Sciences po Paris with an MPhil dissertation about the role of
irregular armed forces for state rebuilding in post-Saddam Iraq (2009). She
is currently a PhD candidate at Sciences Po Paris and continuing her
research about state rebuilding and the army establishment in contemporary
Iraq.
Nathan C. Funk, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
at the University of Waterloos Conrad Grebel University College, with
previous appointments at American University and George Washington
University. His writings on international affairs, the Middle East, and
peace building include Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam (University
Press of America, 2001), Ameen Rihani: Bridging East and West (University
Press of America, 2004), and Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East
(Lynne Rienner, 2009).
Aidan Garrib is a Senior Risk Analyst with an investment firm in Toronto.
He completed his MA in International Political Economy with a dissertation
examining the reorientation of Canadian economic interests from
protectionism to free trade. In addition to his MA, Aidan Garrib holds
degrees in economics and political science, during which he analyzed
competition in energy markets and the politics of international trade.
Mokhtar Lamani is a Senior Visiting Fellow at The Centre for International
Governance Innovation (CIGI), specializing in international affairs and
conflict resolution. He is the former Special Representative of the Arab
League in Iraq and Ambassador of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
to the UN. His most recent publications include the CIGI Special Report:
Minorities in Iraq: The Other Victims (2009).
Bessma Momani is Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo and
Senior Fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI),
specializing on the Middle East and IMF. She is the author of Twentieth
Century World History (Nelson Education, 2007), IMF-Egyptian Negotiations
(American University in Cairo Press, 2005), the CIGI-CIC Special Report:
The Future of International Monetary Fund: A Canadian Perspective (2009)
and is the co-editor of Canada and the Middle East (WLUP, 2007). Dr. Momani
has also published a dozen scholarly articles in numerous political and
economic academic journals.
David Romano is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Rhodes
College and a Senior Research Fellow at the Inter-University Consortium for
Arab and Middle East Studies. In addition to numerous articles on Middle
East politics, the Kurdish issue, forced migration, political violence, and
globalization, he is the author of The Kurdish Nationalist Movement
(Cambridge University Press, 2006). He has spent several years studying and
conducting field research in Turkey, Iraq and Israel/Palestine, in addition
to briefer research trips to other parts of the Middle East.
Joseph Sassoon, a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College Oxford,
is currently a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. His recent book,
The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan,
2009) deals with Iraqi refugees after the 2003 invasion. Other publications
under his name include Economic Policy in Iraq, 1932-1950 (Frank Cass,
1987), and he has also written articles on Iraq and other Middle Eastern
economies.
Peter Sluglett is Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of
Utah, Salt Lake City. In addition to over 80 articles on Iraq, he is the
author of Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
and co-author of Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship (I.B.
Tauris, 2001)