Occasional Papers

Occasional Papers feature important work by leading scholars on Iraq. All occasional papers are subjected to strict double-blind peer review and are professionally edited.

Eric Davis, Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq, No. 2, June 2015. Brand new. Free download.



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IIS is delighted to announce the publication of Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq by Eric Davis, a leading scholar of contemporary Iraq. Davis thinks through the meaning, components, context and impediments to establishing and sustaining a democracy in strife-torn Iraq. Occasional Paper No. 2 is available as a free PDF book and as a Kindle book.

‘Abbas Kadhim, The Hawza under Siege: A Study in Ba’th Party Archive, No. 1.

Kadhim’s richly nuanced study draws on the archives of the Ba’thist regime in Iraq and examines the efforts of Saddam Hussein and his subordinates to influence, control, intimidate and subvert Shi’i religious authorities, especially the leading clerical authorities.

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