A Responsible End?

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The United States and the Iraqi Transition, 2005-2010

Reidar Visser

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English

Just World Books
01 December 2010

Middle Eastern history; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Military history; Diplomacy

In A Responsible End? the highly regarded expert on Iraq Reidar Visser tells the story of both the internal politics of Iraq and the United States' role and involvement in it. Many Americans had hoped that the 2005 elections would usher in an era of democracy in Iraq. But the aftermath of the elections was devastating for many Iraqis, as sectarian violence engulfed Baghdad and other key areas of the country in 2006-2007.

Visser provides a clear analysis of the complex path Iraq's internal politics took during those seminal years and charts how, very often, Washington's policies ended up seriously weakening the very country that President Geroge W. Bush claimed he had come to ""save.""

By: Reidar Visser
Imprint: Just World Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: UK ed.
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781935982036
ISBN 10: 1935982036
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 01 December 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reidar Visser is a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He has a background in history and comparative politics and holds a doctorate in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oxford. He has published extensively on the history of southern Iraq and issues of decentralization and federalism relating to Iraq.

Reviews for A Responsible End?: The United States and the Iraqi Transition, 2005-2010

""This book provides and invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand Iraqi politics from 2005 to the present."" --Toby Dodge, International Institute for Strategic Studies ""Visser offers a trenchant critique of US entanglement in Iraq and points to avenues of positive engagement on the part of the international community... His analysis of the promise and pitfalls of federalism is the best I have read."" --Dina Khoury, George Washington University ""Reidar Visser is the most careful observer of Iraqi politics writing in English today. He is also a one-man truth squad, skewering the conventional wisdom that has been so wrong about Iraq so many times and holding politicians and analysts to account for their errors and missteps. One could hardly find a better source for deciphering the complexities of Iraqi politics."" --F. Gregory Gause, University of Vermont