Iraq: His Pltcs 1917-2019

1 Credit · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course is designed to provide students with the basic structure of Iraq’s political and socio-economic history from World War I to the present day through readings drawn from some of the most important books and articles in English. The class will examine the main political parties of that period (the Iraqi Communist Party and the Ba‘th Party); the various sectarian and tribal communities of Iraq and their interaction with the elites. The course is built on a chronological base and will end by considering the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its implications, and then appraise the state of Iraq sixteen years after the invasion from different points of view.