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IRAQ: IRAQ: From autocracy to democracyFrom autocracy to democracy
IRAQ: From Autocracy to Democracy
I. EARLY IRAQ
II. THE BAATH ERA
III. DEMOCRACY FROM ABOVE
Terms to KnowSaddam Hussein Faisal I
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
Nuri al-Maliki Faisal II
KDP PUK
De-Baathification Jalal Talabani
“There is…no Iraqi people but unimaginable masses of human beings,
devoid of any patriotic idea,
imbued with religious traditions & absurdities,
connected by no common tie,
giving ear to evil, prone to anarchy, and
perpetually ready to rise against any government.”
http://www.culture-iraq.com/pages/babylon-ruins.html
http://www.worldology.com/Iraq/turk_mongol_rule.htm
I. EARLY IRAQ
1920 Mandate & Revolt
1921 King Faisal I, Constitutional Republic
1932 Independence
1933-39 Ghazi
1939 Faisal II (age 4)
1941 British occupy
1945-58 Republic
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/i/iq_1920.gif http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/iq_kingd.html
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/iraq-map-province1.JPG
II. THE BA’ATH ERA
1958: Qasim & Arif oust Faisal Qasim jails Arif
1963: Baathists oust Qasim Arif takes power in bloodless coup
1968: Baathists oust Arif’s brother Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)
Pres. & RCC Chair Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr RCC Vice-chair & VP Saddam Hussein
The Saddam Era1979-2003
Personal Rule eclipses Party
Secular, socialist, nationalist
Arabism Vs. Persians & Kurds
Islam & anti-zionism Vs. Gulf War coalition Women’s rights erode
III. DEMOCRACY FROM ABOVE
2003-2004 Coalition Provisional Authority +DeBaathification
June ‘04 Sovereignty
1/30/05 Transitional National Assembly+Constitution adopted 10/05
12/15/05 Elections
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7874180.stm http://www.lebanonwire.com/0601MN/Iraq_election_results.gif
Iraqi Government:quasi-consociationalism Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki
President Jalal Talabani
Kurdish Regional Government
Speaker Sunni Hajim al-Hassani
Iraqi Society
SUNNI Former Baathists Saddam loyalists Al Qaeda Sons of Iraq
SHI’A Sadr & Badr
Brigades
KURDS KDP & PUK Ansar al-Islam PKK
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/12/12/world/middleeast/1248069435923/iraq-christians-on-the-run.html
2010 ELECTIONS
National Alliance (State of Law + INA)
PM Nouri Maliki
Presidency: Kurds
Iyad Allawi of al-Iraqiyya heads Council for National Strategy
al-Iraqiyya’s Osama Nujaifi to be Speaker.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11732158
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1221/Iraq-s-new-government-raises-hopes-even-as-key-ministries-go-unfilled