Iraq

Gareth Stansfield is Al-Qasimi Professor of Arab Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and a Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London. He is also a Global Fellow of the Wilson Center, Washington DC

• Introduction: Artificiality, Identity, Dictatorship, and State-Building Chapter 1: Legacies of Civilizations and EmpiresChapter 2: State Formation, Monarchy, and Mandate, 1918-1932Chapter 3: Conceptualizing Iraqi SocietyChapter 4: From Authoritarian to Totalitarian State, 1933-1979Chapter 5: Iraq at War, 1979-1989Chapter 6: The Pariah State, 1989-2003Chapter 7: Regime Change, 2003-Chapter 8: From the Brink, to the BrinkChapter 9: The Disintegration of IraqChapter 10: The Rise of the Islamic StateConclusion

�Gareth Stansfield�s Iraq is a unique piece of research, meticulous, profound and, more importantly, timely and cool. Such multidimensional examination from objective scholars is a must.�Faleh A. Jabar, Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies�An essential reference, providing the most up-to-date account of the political history of Iraq from Saddam Hussein�s dictatorship to the emergence of ISIS. An outstanding analysis of contemporary Iraq and the forces leading to its fragmentation.�Eugene Rogan, Oxford University, and author of The Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East