The battle for Iraq: Islamic insurgencies in comparative perpective

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-273

  Robinson, Glenn E ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARAB WORLD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOPOLITICS; ISLAMISM; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33847359091     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436590601153648     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. After surveying nearly 2000 houses in Iraq, Johns Hopkins University researchers concluded that about 600 000 Iraqi civilians have died violently as a result of the war through July 2006. New York Times, 11 October 2006. This. gure is signi.cantly higher than the roughly 30 000-50 000 dead normally cited, including by the Brookings database on Iraq.
2. L Bilmes & JE Stiglitz, 'The economic costs of the Iraq war: An appraisal three years after the beginning of the confict', paper presented at the ASSA meetings, Boston, MA, January 2006.
3. For the full 13-volume study and related documents, see the United States Department of State, The Future of Iraq Project, Washington, DC: US Department of State, 2006, at http://www.gwu.edu/∼nsarchiv/NSAEBB/ NSAEBB198/index.htm#1.
4. There is a growing literature on how the US bungled the aftermath of its overthrow of Saddam Hussain, including TE Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, New York: Penguin, 2006
5. PW Galbraith, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
6. A more journalistic approach that reaches the same conclusions can be found in Bob Woodward, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.
7. Ironically, living in exile in Damascus in 1860 after having been imprisoned in France, 'Abd al-Qadir personally intervened to stave off a potential massacre of thousands of Christians, including the French Consul, there, for which he was honoured by France.
8. The full text in English can be found at http://meastpolitics.wordpress.com/.les/2006/09/speech.pdf#search= %22Nasrallah%20September%20speech%22.
9. For a detailed discussion of Hamas's ideology and its cultural frames, see Glenn E Robinson, 'Hamas as social movement', in Quintan Wiktorowicz (ed), Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004.
10. The phrase comes from John Arquilla. For a comprehensive discussion of the history of the struggle to de.ne Iraq and create a unifying national narrative for the erstwhile British mandate, see E Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
11. All data in this section come from The Brookings Institution's invaluable Iraq Index, found at http://www.brookings.edu/iraqindex.