Khalil Osman

Sectarianism in Iraq

The Making of State and Nation Since 1920

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first large-scale, detailed and systematic social science examination of the relationship between sectarianism and the making of state and nation in Iraq. It investigates the interaction between sectarianism and the on going and unfinished process of Iraqi state building.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780367869632
• ISBN-10: 0367869632
• Artikelnr.: 58441543

Autorenporträt

Khalil Osman is a Senior Political Affairs Officer at the UN. He has taught politics at Indiana University and reported extensively from several Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq. Dr Osman's reporting experience includes work for the BBC, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Canada International.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 A Theoretical Excursus: State-Making, Nation-Building and
the Sectarian Problematique 2 The Legacy of History: Nation-Building,
Marginalization and Ascendance of Primordial Sectarianism 3 Elite Makeup
and the Politics of Stratification 4 Education, Resistance and the
Reproduction of Primordial Sectarian Identity 5 Contending Visions of
Collective Identity 6 Sectarianism and the Crisis of the Nation-State in
Iraq Conclusion