dc.contributor.author | ROMANO, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-06T15:02:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-06T15:02:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The Middle East Journal, 2014, Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 547-566 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1940-3461 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0026-3141 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/33413 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the summer of 2014, the Iraqi government lost control of much of the country. Insurgents — including the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), former Ba'thists, and an array of Sunni tribes — captured Mosul, and then much of western Iraq. Although complex factors lay behind these developments, this article focuses on one theme of central importance: attempts to consolidate power in Baghdad and the concomitant evisceration of Iraq's constitution. When key provisions of a very decentralizing federal constitution were ignored or violated, the blowback from disenfranchised groups in Iraq brought the country to the brink of collapse. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Middle East Journal | en |
dc.title | Iraq’s descent into civil war : a constitutional explanation | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3751/68.4.13 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 68 | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 547 | en |
dc.identifier.endpage | 566 | en |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en |