State-Making, Nation-Building and the Military: Iraq, 1941-1958

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Éditeur : Göteborg University	Date & Lieu : 1996, Göteborg
Préface :	Pages : 178
Traduction :	ISBN : 91-628-2310-8
Langue : Anglais	Format : 165x240 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. Sal. Sta. 1267	Thème : Général

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State-Making, Nation-Building and the Military: Iraq, 1941-1958 Khaled Salih Göteborg University Nation-building, a central theme of nationalism, has been viewed by politicians, administrators and activists as a highly desirable, if not an imperative, goal over the last two centuries. As an academic topic it has attracted the attention of a large number of historians and social scientists for several decades. At times, nation-building was believed to be an easy and automatic process, following universal patterns which originated in the West. Despite time, place, historical and cultural conditions, it appeared that both old and new states had to undergo the Western processes of nation-building and could be analysed in the same terms. Nation-building is conceived and discussed within the perimeters of particular given states. However, over the last few decades political scientists, sociologists and historians have held lengthy discussions on ‘the withering away of the state’, ‘bringing the state back in’, ‘the return of the state’, ‘the limits of the state’, ‘political power beyond the state’, ‘the problem of the state’, ‘the difficulty of ...


Table des Matières
Contents Contents / 3 Acknowledgements / 5 Chapter 1 / 6 Introduction: Bringing a new State and a new nation into existence in Iraq / 6 State-making and nation-building: a conceptual framework / 12 Introduction / 12 State-making and nation-building / 12 Ethnicity, state and nation-building / 16 Military and nation-building / 21 Iraq as a case study in state and nation-building / 24 Introduction / 24 Forging nation models / 25 Analytical limitations, actors, period, events and previous research / 32 Analytical limitations / 32 Actors / 34 Period and events / 34 Previous research / 34 Aim and questions / 35 Method and material / 36 Verification of intentions / 38 Definitions / 40 Chapter 2 / 43 Nation-building in Iraq: intentions and assumptions / 43 Introduction / 43 Nation-building intentions / 43 British nation-building intentions in Iraq / 44 Iraqi nation-building intentions / 49 Nation-building assumptions / 54 Conclusion / 60 Chapter 3 / 61 Reorganisation of the Iraqi army, 1941-1948 / 61 Introduction: University of the Nation / 61 Identifying the needs to re-organise / 63 An efficient force made fit to take the field / 67 Resistance / 76 Conclusion / 77 Chapter 4 / 78 The Barzan question, 1943-1945 / 78 Introduction / 78 The events / 80 Peaceful settlement, calculated or immediate military action? / 82 The British position / 82 The Iraqi position / 89 The military solution / 95 Conclusion / 100 Chapter 5 / 102 Army and external and internal politics, 1945-1958 / 102 Introduction / 102 Part I Army and external politics / 102 A) The Palestine question and the war in Palestine in 1948 / 102 B) The Baghdad Pact, 1955 / 110 Part II: Army and internal politics / 113 K)al-Wathba of 1948 / 113 The army and al-Wathba / 115 B) The Intifadha of November 1952 / 118 Army and the Intifadha / 119 Conclusion / 120 Chapter 6 / 122 The coup and the revolution of July 1958 / 122 Introduction / 122 The importance of the revolution of July 1958 / 123 The coup of July 1958 / 125 Two conflicting visions / 129 Attempts to bridge divisions / 132 The role of the army / 133 Conclusion / 137 Chapter 7 / 140 State, nation-building and the military in Iraq / 140 Introduction / 140 Iraqi state-making and nation-building: wataniyya versus qawmiyya / 140 Using the army / 143 State-penetration / 152 Nation-building intentions and the control of the army / 156 Hegemonic control / 156 Sunni Arab hegemony / 159 Concluding remarks / 165 References / 167