The Historiography of Modern Iraq

Farouk-Sluglett, Marion; Sluglett, Peter

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“…Focusing more on domestic politics, Majid Khadduri produced a series of extremely detailed studies on the Iraqi political elite (Khadduri, , ). With the Revolution of 1958 and the installation of a string of military juntas, however, difficulties of access and evidence began to impinge more heavily on scholarship (Farouk‐Sluglett and Sluglett, :1419).…”

Section: Studying Iraq From Afarmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rise and Fall of Iraq in the Social Sciences*

Ahram

2016

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective This article analyzes how the extremely authoritarian nature of the Iraqi regime affected scholarship of Iraq and shows how regime opacity and brutality constrain social science research. Methods The article examines scholarly output on Iraq using qualitative and quantitative metrics from the Saddam Hussein era and the post‐2003 period after his removal from power. Results The article finds a dramatic increase in the quantity of publications on Iraq after 2003 and a shift toward more nomothetic, theory‐building research involving Iraq. New forms of research on Iraq, including field research, embedded observation, interviews, surveys, and archival research, also became prevalent after 2003. Conclusion The progress of social science research depends both on regime transparency and regime stability. Researchers can adjust techniques to address the absence of transparency or stability, but without the combination of both, the overall venture suffers.

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Section: Studying Iraq From Afarmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rise and Fall of Iraq in the Social Sciences*

Ahram

2016

Social Science Quarterly

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“…It can recognize the formations of modern forms of jurisdiction throughout the world and the expansion of the world economy as internally related processes. It can transcend the Eurocentric image of the “Middle Eastern” nation‐states as communalistic and religious “Islamic” societies that are impervious to modern ideologies (Farouk‐Sluglett and Sluglett, ; Zubaida, ). Further, it can comprehend how this image is realized as a modern phenomenon emerged with the rise of modern nation‐state (Zubaida, ).…”

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Studying Modern Nation‐State in a World‐Historical Perspective: The Instance of Iraq

Yaşın¹

2014

J Historical Sociology

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By examining conceptual and historical approaches on modern state and state formation in the context of Iraq, this paper addresses four interrelated methodological aspects of studying state formation (1) to contest the simplicity of Eurocentric knowledge production in studying state formation especially in the periphery, (2) to bring capital and nation‐state into a relational analysis and to call for research on how they constitute each other historically and geographically, (3) to integrate methodologically local and world‐historical context in understanding the historical complexity of state formation, (4) to problematize the concepts of “capital relation” in order to recognize nature and transformation of nature in the study of state formation.

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“…The nationalist sentiment thus grew among the Kurds like other nationalities within the Ottoman Empire. This nationalist urge led to the formation of secret societies so as to disentangle from the clutches of Ottoman imperial domination (Farouk-Sluglett, 1991). The response of the Ottoman leaders to Kurds aspirations was met with stiff resistance which led to periodical uprisings between 1808 and 1839.…”

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Foreign Policy of the U.S. Towards the Kurds in Turkey and Syria: An Analytical Framework

2019

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Kurds are one of the ethnic nationalities in the Middle East. Middle East is a principal location of majority of the Kurds' ethnic nationality and they form important minority group in both Syria and Turkey. The region has been their natural abode from the earliest time; and the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War had a lasting impact on the political emancipation of the Kurds in the Middle East, notably in Turkey and Syria. With the collateral collapse of the empire under which the Kurds had been ruled for centuries, they were unnaturally conditioned to belong to different national entity in the Middle East. Such unwilling disintegration of Kurds into many states in the Middle East has been a crucial political and social issue in the region. The seemingly unending agitation for political emancipation has been a perennial political issue bothering both regional and global powers who have their interest to protect in the region. One of such major powers is the U.S. who has been making its presence felt in the region since the period of First World War. This article is an extension of boundary of knowledge on how the Kurds political agitation in the region has been inextricably interwoven with the national interest of the U.S. in both Turkey and Syria. In doing this, the researchers rely on the existing government records, online media reports and existing scholarly writings. In making use of these sources, latent content analysis is employed to mine the data.

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The Historiography of Modern Iraq

Cited by 35 publications

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The Rise and Fall of Iraq in the Social Sciences*

The Rise and Fall of Iraq in the Social Sciences*

Studying Modern Nation‐State in a World‐Historical Perspective: The Instance of Iraq

Foreign Policy of the U.S. Towards the Kurds in Turkey and Syria: An Analytical Framework

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