Constitution making under occupation : the politics of imposed revolution in Iraq /

"The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents. This two-stage constitution-making paradigm, implemented in a wholly unpl...

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Main Author: Arato, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Series:Columbia studies in political thought/political history.
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Table of Contents:
  • The externally imposed revolution and its destruction of the Iraqi State
  • Postsovereign constitution making : the new paradigm (and Iraq)
  • Sistani versus Bremer : the emergence of the two-stage model in Iraq
  • Imposition and bargaining in the making of the interim constitution
  • The making of the "permanent" constitution.