I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 208 p. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ruled Mosul from 2014-2017 in accordance with its extremist interpretation of sharia. But beyond what is known about ISIS governance in the city from the group's own materials, very little is understood about the reality of its rule, or reasons for its failure, from those who actually lived under it. This...
Fernwood Publishing, Zed Books, 2006. — 144 p. — (Global History of the Present). Since 1989 the history of Iraq has been one of the world's most traumatic. In this book, Thabit Abdullah places the Iraqi people at the centre of changes which began with the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the current American-led occupation. Battles for control of oil, the vacuum...
Routledge, 2014. — 212 p. This accessible guide has been fully updated to take into account the Iraq War and subsequent developments, whilst retaining its character as a non-partisan and approachable text for students and interested readers alike. The twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the area known currently as Iraq from a backward region of the Ottoman Empire,...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 228 p. Naval Institute Press and the United States Army Journal, Armor is pleased to offer a unique collection of essays highlighting Iraq's social, political and military history from a purely Iraqi perspective. Dr. Ali al-Wardi (1913-1995) attended the American University of Beirut in 1943 and then traveled to the United States to attain his...
Peter Lang, 2018. — 308 p. The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq inadvertently changed the balance of power in favor of the Shiite community in Iraq and beyond. How Shiites Won the Battle Against Islamic State: Kurds and Sunnis in Iraq sheds light on how the Shiite-dominated government's sectarian policies deepened the divide between Iraq's major communities (Shiites, Sunni Arabs, and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 369 p. Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Today, Hamid al-Bayati serves as Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations. But for many years he lived in exile in London, where he worked with other opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime to make a democratic and pluralistic Iraq a reality. As former Western spokesman for...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 264 p. In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba‘th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among women. As Iraq was metaphorically transformed into a ‘female’, through its nationalist trope, women writers simultaneously found opportunities and faced obstacles from the state, as the...
Random House, 1989. — 310 p. — ISBN 0-679-73502-X. This is a detailed and involved account of the rise of the ideology of the Baath party, its coming to power in Iraq in the 1960s, and the ways in which it has become a regime of totalitarian rule, institutionalized violence, universal fear and unchecked personal dictatorship. The ultimate madness was the Iraq-Iran War, but that...
Yale University Press, 2008. - 544 с.
ISBN: 0300136145
Involved for over thirty years in the politics of Iraq, Ali A. Allawi was a long-time opposition leader against the Baathist regime. In the post-Saddam years he has held important government positions and participated in crucial national decisions and events. In this book, the former Minister of Defense and Finance draws on...
Praeger, 2007. — 200 p. Seldom in history has a nation engaged in war without knowing the enemy, as the United States has in Iraq. This book explores, through real life stories, the social and political dynamics at play in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan before the rise of Saddam Hussein. Kirkuk is a hotly contested oil city—a time bomb with the potential to shatter the fragile hope...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 266 p. — ISBN 0-19-511439-6. This book attempts to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. By analysing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, the book illuminates Iraq's political culture and the...
Washington, D.C.: CSIS, 2020. — 27 p. Secretary Pompeo announced on April 7, 2020 that the United States would hold a strategic dialogue with the Iraqi government in mid-June 2020: With the global COVID-19 pandemic raging and plummeting oil revenues threatening an Iraqi economic collapse, it's important that our two governments work together to stop any reversal of the gains we've...
Hoover Institution Publications 156, 1976. — 372 p. ISBN 0-8179-6561-3 This volume traces the rise, the spread, the successes, and the disasters of the Ba'th Party from its founding to the great schism in 1966, when its founders were expelled from Syria and the party split into two mutually antagonistic organizations. Since that time, two Ba'th parties have existed and have...
Columbia University Press, 2003. — 280 p. If we think there is a fast solution to changing the governance of Iraq, warned U.S. Marine General Anthony Zinni in the months before the United States and Britain invaded Iraq, "then we don't understand history." Never has the old line about those who fail to understand the past being condemned to repeat it seemed more urgently...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 433 p. — ISBN 978 0 7486 8605 6 Were they simply bystanders, victims of collateral damage who played a passive role in its history? Furthermore, how have they negotiated their position throughout various periods of Iraq's state-building processes? This book details a narrative of Iraq in the twentieth century and refashions the Assyrian...
University Press of Florida, 2004. — 328 p. — ISBN 978-0-8130-3783-7 This timely book analyzes the political events in Iraq that gave rise to one of the most brutal and sophisticated regimes of the modern era. Analyzing the country's history from 1941 to the Ba'ath Party's takeover of the government in 1968, Michael Eppel re-creates the domestic, social, and ideological climate...
Facts on File, 2008. - 318 pages.
This is a comprehensive guide to more than 6,000 years of history in Iraq.Covering everything from the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations to the fall of Saddam Hussein and the current war in Iraq, this comprehensive book examines the changing landscape of this interesting country. Because of its porous frontiers, its accommodating soil and...
Scarecrow Press, 2004. — 536 p. Historical Dictionary of Iraq begins with the earliest civilizations and covers the periods that followed, ranging from the history of ancient Mesopotamia to the Abbasid Empire to present-day Iraq. Included are a historical overview; a country profile; a review of the economy, oil, fauna, and political institutions; coverage of the Iran-Iraq War,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 240 p. Ever wondered what members of the Special Forces did after they left the services? This story starts with five guys organizing an undercover road trip across worn torn Iraq in the spring 2003. Discover how they used their unique military skills to create a successful security company with over 300 employees during the early days of the...
Montreal: McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies, 1968. — vi; 170 p. A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
The purpose of this study is to analyze and discuss the extent of Tusi's involvement in the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258 A.D. To elucidate this disputed...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 328 p. Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name. First identified as 'Chaldean' by the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, this misnomer persisted, developing into a distinctive and unique identity. In modern times, the demands...
Beirut: Carnegie Middle East Center, 2020. — 36 p. Over the past nearly two decades, the presence of a variety of state and nonstate military and security forces has transformed the Syrian border district of Bukamal and the neighboring Iraqi district of Qa’im. Following the end of the self-proclaimed Islamic State’s caliphate, Iranian-backed militias began to play a major role...
Casa Árabe & the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2015. — 88 p. Casa Árabe is presenting “Iraq at a Crossroads,” co-published with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, as a result of the seminar held in late 2014 on this subject. As a result of a seminar organized by Casa Árabe and the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation which brought together several experts on Iraq, a volume has been published...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 204 p. Introduces readers to the dramatic events, notable people, and special customs and traditions that have shaped many of the world's countries. The book tackles different periods with an interest in diverse spheres of the Iraqi society (arts, politics, religious, tribal, etc.).
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 305 p. Samuel Helfont draws on extensive research with Ba'thist archives to investigate the roots of the religious insurgencies that erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003. In looking at Saddam Hussein's policies in the 1990s, many have interpreted his support for state-sponsored religion as evidence of a dramatic shift away...
Naval Intelligence Division, 1944. — 682 p. With Illustrations and Maps. Geographical Handbook Series. For official use only. In 1915 a Geographical Section was formed in the Natal Intelligence Division of the Admiralty to write Geographical Handbooks on various parts of the world. The purpose of these Handbooks was to supply, by scientific research and skilled arrangement,...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 338 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-511-36642-0. This is the first comprehensive work to examine the complex transformation of the Iraqi Communist Party from vanguard actor under Iraq’s conservative monarchy to rearguard lackey under US occupation. Born in the interlude between two world wars, the Communist Party of Iraq was fostered by Iraq’s embryonic...
Routledge, 2014. — 156 p. Since 1950 the governments of Iraq have attempted vigorously to develop the economy and have stressed industrial development. Here Dr Ferhang Jalal discusses, analyses and appraises a number of policies adopted by the government of Iraq designed to promote the growth of the industrial sector. The policies were of two kinds: the establishment of...
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 224 p. While some scholars would argue that there was no "Iraq" before King Faysal's coronation in 1921, Iraqi history spans fourteen centuries of tribal communities that endured continual occupation in their historic homeland, including Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century and subsequent Ottoman and British invasions. An Iraqi identity...
Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies, 2016. — 63 p. Since the fall of Mosul it has sometimes been said by Iraq’s detractors that there is no longer any such thing as the Iraqi security forces (ISF). This is clearly nonsense and those peddling this line are fully aware that it is nonsense. They are motivated by schadenfreude – a foolish desire to mock Iraq in its moment of...
I. B. Tauris, 2004. — 176 p. — ISBN 1 86064 966 1 In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two swords that clash overhead. Those arms are enlarged casts of those of Saddam Hussein, showing every bump and follicle. The "Victory Arch" celebrates a victory over Iran (in...
Westview, 2017. — 1260 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8133-5006-6 Although Iraq has now been a modern state—of modest size—for almost a century, few countries have had such a potentially promising future, yet undergone such a turbulent history, or, in recent years, been the focus of such world attention. Wars, sanctions, occupation, and brutal civil strife have brought abrupt, severe, and...
Allen and Unwin, 2003. — 305 p. A classic, engrossing war correspondent's story by the only Australian journalist who was in Baghdad for the duration of the war. One of only a handful of reporters to cover the entire war in Iraq from Baghdad, Australia's most trusted foreign correspondent kept a daily diary. This collection documents the compelling human stories Paul McGeough...
Random House, 1990. — 266 p. — ISBN 0-8129-1921-1 This combined work of a journalist for The New York Times and a Harvard scholar is neither a biography of Saddam nor a history of Iraq but has elements of both and serves the purpose of giving the general reader a broad and fairly solid background for understanding the crisis in the gulf. There is a bit of everything here on the...
Monograph. — Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. — 331 p. The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism, pointing to the strong Arab attributes of Iraqi...
Croom Helm, 1982. — 283 p. — ISBN 0-31243585-1 Iraq is one of the key countries of the Arab world, but compared to its neighbours there is very little written material available to Westerners about Iraq. It is, however, a country which the outside world will need increasingly to understand. The scale of Iraq’s oil reserves and the aspirations of the present Iraqi government...
Foreign Policy Institute, Ankara, 2001. - 45 p. This paper was written with two clear purposes in mind. First is the aim of making assessment as to the current presence of the Turkomans in Iraq and the second is to draw an analysis as to the current Turkish foreign policy in regard to northern Iraq. In doing so, the underlying motive lying behind this study has been an attempt...
Routledge, 2014. — 357 p. This book links sectarianism in Iraq to the failure of the modern nation-state to resolve tensions between sectarian identities and concepts of unified statehood and uniform citizenry. After a theoretical excursus that recasts the notion of primordial identity as a socially constructed reality, the author sets out to explain the persistence of...
Routledge, 2010. — 235 p. Iraq, democracy and Islam are powerful global forces which shape not only many aspects of the lives of Muslims, but the lives of other citizens of the world as well. This book explores many of the challenging questions posed by the interconnections between these three forces, concentrating on issues which have global significance and which have been...
Praeger, 2007. — 170 p. According to the Bush administration, the war in Iraq ended in May 2003 when the president pronounced mission accomplished from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Yet, fighting, resistance, and American casualties continue. Stephen Pelletiere argues that it is Iraqi suspicion of the Americans' motives the belief that the United States is out to tear...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 200 p. The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. and British troops on one side and, on the other, Iraqi...
London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2006. — 184 p. Since the start of the Iraq conflict, world-renowned security expert Paul Rogers has produced a series of monthly reports scrutinizing developments in the occupation and the Iraqi response to it, drawing on the unique range of contacts and material available to the prestigious Oxford Research Group. Now, for the first time, Rogers...
UPA, 2010. — 225 p. In the early hours of July 14, 1958, Iraqi military officers overthrew the British-installed Iraqi monarchy. The Free Officers coup initiated an era of military and subsequently Ba'thist rule that only ended with the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Historians are at variance over the nature of what is called the Iraqi Revolution in the Arab world. Some...
Nation Books, 2010. — 775 p. — ISBN: 978-0-454-02121-2 Nir Rosen's Aftermath, an extraordinary feat of reporting, follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world. Rosen -- who the Weekly Standard once bitterly complained has "great access to the Baathists and jihadists...
Haymarket Books, 2005. — 208 p. Whether standing up to British occupiers, the monarchy they installed or the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein-who for many years was a friend and ally of the United States-the workers' movement and the Left in Iraq have a rich history of fighting for a more democratic society. This is the only book of its kind on the history of the Left and...
Chelsea House Publications, 2005. — 163 p. Presents the life and leadership of the former president of Iraq, who defied UN sanctions and was captured by American soldiers in December 2003.
Columbia University Press, 2004. — 258 p. Why did a group from the Iraqi army seize control of the government and wage a disastrous war against Great Britain, rejecting British and liberal values for those of a militaristic Germany? What impact did these actions have on the regime of Saddam Hussein? Departing from previous studies explaining modern Iraqi history in terms of class...
I.B. Tauris, 2001. — 416 p. Iraq Since 1958 is the definitive political history of modern Iraq from thefall of the Hashemite monarchy until today. As the world prepares for war,it provides a critical analysis of those issues that have dominated Iraqi affairs over the last half-century and will continue to do so in the years to come -- with or without Saddam Hussein. Iraq Since...
I.B. Tauris, 2007. — 337 p. After the end of World War I, international pressures prevented the Allies from implementing direct colonial rule over the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Instead, the Allies created a system of mandates for the governance of the Middle East. France was assigned Lebanon and Syria, and Britain was assigned Iraq, Palestine, and...
I.B. Tauris, 2008. — 312 p. In this controversial new book, award-winning journalist Jonathan Steele provides a compelling challenge to the conventional wisdom that the problem was one of inadequate planning. Bush and Blair, he argues, were defeated from the day they decided to occupy the country. Iraq had had enough of foreign armies. Steele describes the memories of centuries...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 357 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-87823-4. To understand Iraq, Charles Tripps history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers, journalists and all those seeking to make sense of what has gone wrong in this troubled country....
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 387 p. — ISBN: 978-9-086-75368-7-0 The modern history of Iraq is a history of the ways in which the people who found themselves living in the new Iraqi state were drawn into its orbit. The creation of a state centred on Baghdad in , with its frontiers, its bureaucracy and its fiscal system, established a new framework for politics,...
Bantam Books, 2013. — 378 p. Fallujah: Iraq's most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were left dead. The epic battle for...
Random House, 2008. — 577 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58836-759-4 In Iraq, the United States made mistake after mistake. Many Americans gave up on the war. Then two generals—David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno—displayed the leadership America expected. Bringing the reader from the White House to the fighting in the streets, combat journalist and bestselling author Bing West explains this...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 192 р. Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. government embarked upon a reconstruction effort which included rebuilding an Iraqi National Police. Retired and former American Police Officers were contracted to travel to Iraq to train this new police force. Dependent on their...
Washington, D.C., National Defense University Press, 2009. — 163 p.
"Война Саддама." представляет собой сборник интервью с Ра'адом Хамдани, иракским офицером, прошедшим путь от лейтенанта-танкиста на Голанских высотах в 1973 году до генерал-лейтенанта, командира II корпуса Республиканской Гвардии в 2003-м.
В книге очень много информации изнутри о военном строительстве Ирака,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 412 p. During the 2003 war that ended Saddam Hussein's regime, coalition forces captured thousands of hours of secret recordings of meetings, phone calls, and conferences. Originally prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, this study presents annotated transcripts of Iraqi...
Routledge, 2006. — 257 p. Note on transliteration List of abbreviations Map The setting of an Ottoman province The issue of reform The Sultan’s officials The vilayet of Baghdad The vilayet of Mosul The vilayet of Basra Tribal problems The vilayet of Mosul The vilayet of Baghdad The vilayet of Basra The Shi’i problem The British danger Notes
СПб.: Типография Главного управления уделов, 1912. — 625 с. Турецкая окраина, служившая в течение трех с лишним веков яблоком раздора между Турцией и Персией и ареной нескончаемой борьбы арабов с турками, не может не представить и современного интереса, как центр шиитского паломничества, куда направляется поток поклонников, между прочим, из русского Закавказья и Бухары, и как...
М.: МГУ, 2002. - 768 с. В изданной монографии рассматриваются проблемы развития взаимосвязей между персами и арабами, генезис и современное состояние ирано-иракских отношений. Автор прослеживает процесс зарождения исламской цивилизации, характер арабских завоевательных походов, исторические судьбы мусульманских народов в Средние века, ход новой и новейшей истории Ирана и Ирака....
М.: МГУ, 2002. - 768 с.
В изданной монографии рассматриваются проблемы развития взаимосвязей между персами и арабами, генезис и современное состояние ирано-иракских отношений. Автор прослеживает процесс зарождения исламской цивилизации, характер арабских завоевательных походов, исторические судьбы мусульманских народов в Средние века, ход новой и новейшей истории Ирана и Ирака....
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959 - 36 с. Перевод с английского Д.Э.Куниной Редактор Б.Н.Антонович Аннотация: Настоящая брошюра издана в Багдаде группой прогрессивных студентов, обучавшихся в американских университетах. Она посвящена борьбе иракского народа за свободу и национальную независимость своей родины против режима гнета и жесточайшей эксплуатации, борьбе,...
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2009. — 224 с.
Монография посвящена истории предоставления независимости Ираку в 1928–1932 гг. Реалии международной политики того времени тесно связаны с вопросами контроля над топливно-энергетическими ресурсами региона. Автор сосредоточил внимание на нефтяном факторе, оказавшем непосредственное влияние на решение об отмене иностранной опеки над...
М.: Наука, 1969. — 181 с. Книга посвящена истории ожесточенной борьбы иностранных— в первую очередь английских — монополий за обладание богатейшими нефтяными ресурсами Ирака с момента обнаружения нефти в стране до наших дней. Автор, проживший в Ираке несколько лет, подробно анализирует влияние нефтяного вопроса на всю внутри- и внешнеполитическую жизнь Ирака к борьбу...
Акад. наук СССР. Ин-т востоковедения. М.: Изд-во Акад. наук СССР, 1958. — 217 с. В книге даётся анализ социально-экономического строя Ирака в начале XX в., политического и экономического развития этой страны в годы первой мировой войны, национально-освободительного движения перед восстанием 1920 г. и в период восстания, программ и деятельности политических организаций Ирака.
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2009. — 256 с.
Данное исследование посвящено анализу причин, хода и результатов войны в Ираке по состоянию на 1 января 2009 года, когда количество жертв перевалило за миллион человек, а временной промежуток вооруженного конфликта превысил 5 лет.
Предметом исследования являются, в частности, иракские группировки сопротивления, тем или иным образом...
Благовещенск: БГПУ, 2006. - 265 с.
Учебное пособие имеет целью рассмотрение на подробной основе иракского кризиса и его различных составляющих, что даст возможность составить целостное, а также максимально полное представление о важнейших аспектах проблемы Ирака.
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2017. — 196 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89394-285-9. Об авторе Введение Нефтяной комплекс Ирака в период трансформации 2003–2008 гг. Период восстановления нефтяного комплекса 2008–2015 гг. Регион Курдистан Перспективы нефтегазового сектора Ирака Заключение Приложения Примечания
Монография. — М.: Садра, 2017. — 448 с. — (Исламский и доисламский мир: история и политика). — ISBN: 978-5-906859-27-3. Настоящая работа представляет собой попытку реконструкции истории государства Лахмидов, существовавшего в период со второй половины III по начало VII вв. в юго-западной части современного Ирака. Правители Лахмидской династии обладали властью над рядом арабских...
Монография. — М.: Садра, 2017. — 448 с. — (Исламский и доисламский мир: история и политика). — ISBN: 978-5-906859-27-3. Настоящая работа представляет собой попытку реконструкции истории государства Лахмидов, существовавшего в период со второй половины III по начало VII вв. в юго-западной части современного Ирака. Правители Лахмидской династии обладали властью над рядом арабских...
М.: Садра, 2017. — 448 с. — (Исламский и доисламский мир: история и политика). — ISBN: 978-5-906859-27-3. Настоящая работа представляет собой попытку реконструкции истории государства Лахмидов, существовавшего в период со второй половины III по начало VII вв. в юго-западной части современного Ирака. Правители Лахмидской династии обладали властью над рядом арабских племён, в том...
М.: Садра, 2017. — 448 с. — (Исламский и доисламский мир: история и политика). — ISBN: 978-5-906859-27-3. Настоящая работа представляет собой попытку реконструкции истории государства Лахмидов, существовавшего в период со второй половины III по начало VII вв. в юго-западной части современного Ирака. Правители Лахмидской династии обладали властью над рядом арабских племён, в том...
Рогатин: Друкарня ПП Білінський, 2016. — 47 с. В збірнику розглядаються проблеми пов´язані з дослідженнями історії іракскої цивілізації. Проаналізовані період з найдавніших часів та до сьогоднішнього дня. Особливу увагу присвячено дослідженню становлення громадянського суспільства і розвитку культури, військової справи. Описано події громадського і культурного життя народів...
Институт востоковедения РАН. — М.: ИВ РАН, 2016. — 663 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89282-707-2 Исторические события в Ираке на протяжении XX столетия излагаются автором в широком региональном контексте. Кратко анализируются основные события конца XIX века, определившие историческое развитие Ирака последующего столетия. Дана также оценка оккупации Ирака в 2003 г., явившаяся логическим...
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