Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO: Consolidating the Monarchical State, 1921-1936 8 CHAPTER THREE: Framing Democracy with a Certain Indifference, 1921-1936 40 CHAPTER FOUR: The Uncertain Nation, 1921-1936 67 CHAPTER FIVE: Turbulence in Governance, 1936-1958 92 CHAPTER SIX: Potholes in the Democratic Road, 1936-1958 120 CHAPTER SEVEN: Nationalism and the Ethnosectarian Divide, 1936-1958 136 CHAPTER EIGHT: The Monarchy's Political System, 1921-1958 148 CHAPTER NINE: The Authoritarian Republic, 1958-1968 171 CHAPTER TEN: The State Rules without Rules, 1968-2003 209 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Politics in the New Era, 2003- 242 CHAPTER TWELVE: W(h)ither Iraq? 275 Notes 291 Bibliography 343 Index 359
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