Constitution Making Under Occupation: The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq

by Andrew Arato

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231143028
• ISBN13: 9780231143028
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher