The Legacy of Iraq: From the 2003 War to the ‘Islamic State’
by Benjamin Isakhan
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The Legacy of Iraq critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in peace and prosperity. It argues that mistakes made by the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set a sequence of events in motion that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, the Middle East and for the rest of the world. Today, as the nation faces perhaps its greatest challenge in the wake of the
Benjamin Isakhan is Professor of International Politics and Founding Director of Polis, a research network for Politics and International Relations research in the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, Australia.
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