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Main Author: Arato, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press c2009
Series:Columbia studies in political thought / political history
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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 unplanned move by the Iraqis and their American sponsors, formed a kind of compromise between the populist-democratic project of Shi'ite clerics and America's external interference. As long as it was used in a coherent and legitimate way, the method held promise. Unfortunately, the logic of external impositio
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 360 p)
ISBN:9780231512435