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Writings by Topic: Iraq
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Articles, Reviews

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Articles

Title Publication Date
Kurdish leaders are drunk with power Daily Star (Beirut) July 1, 2009
The Troop Drawdown Could Be Costly for Iraq Wall Street Journal June 30, 2009
Leaders' mortality may sway Iraq's health Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst April 17, 2009
Dissident Watch: Mithal al-Alusi Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
Is U.S. Detention Policy in Iraq Working? Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009
Getting Religion Wrong Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion October 2008
Return of the Purple Fingers Washington Post June 9, 2008
The Proposed U.S. Security Commitment to Iraq House Foreign Affairs Committee January 23, 2008
Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally? AEI Middle Eastern Outlook January 2008
The Extension of the United Nations Mandate for Iraq House Foreign Affairs Committee December 19, 2007
The U.S. Counter-propaganda Failure in Iraq Middle East Quarterly Fall 2007
U.S. Policy Options in the Iraq Crisis U.S. House of Representatives July 17, 2007
Culture in Post-Saddam Iraq Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Iraqi Kurdistan's Downward Spiral Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Is Iraq in a Civil War? Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Enabling Kurdish Illusions Weekly Standard March 19, 2007
The Barzani Chameleon Middle East Quarterly Spring 2007
Iraq in Books Middle East Quarterly Spring 2007
Who Owns Kirkuk? The Kurdish Case Middle East Quarterly Winter 2007
Who Owns Kirkuk? The Turkoman Case Middle East Quarterly Winter 2007
What went wrong: A sober look at Iraq National Review Online December 4, 2006
Right war, botched occupation USA Today November 27, 2006
Nurture Iraqi democracy, from the ground up Los Angeles Times November 16, 2006
Why withdrawal from Iraq is the worst option Financial Times October 26, 2006
Conclusion First, Debate Afterwards Weekly Standard October 20, 2006
Misguided reconciliation with Baathists Philadelphia Inquirer October 19, 2006
Last Chance for Iraq? National Review September 11, 2006
How Iraqi Oil Smuggling Greases Violence Middle East Quarterly Fall 2006
Dissident Watch: Kamal Sayid Qadir Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
Are We Playing for Keeps? Wall Street Journal February 27, 2006
Iraqi Beacon Wall Street Journal December 14, 2005
How to Deal with Kidnappings in Iraq Rivista di Intelligence December 2005
Iraq's Comeback Kid National Review November 29, 2005
All the Wrong Reasons Victor David Hanson Private Papers November 13, 2005
Iraq, Unplugged National Review Online November 1, 2005
With Freedom Comes Politics Wall Street Journal October 18, 2005
Iraq and the Democratization of the Middle East La Rivoluzione Democratica Contro Il Terrorismo October 14, 2005
Only threat of force will tame Tehran The Observer October 9, 2005
"The Arafat Model" National Review September 12, 2005
The Future of Iraq: Democracy, Civil War, or Chaos? Middle East Review of International Affairs September 2005
Less Is More in Iraq Washington Post August 9, 2005
The Price of Compromise New York Sun August 8, 2005
Reconstructing Iraq: Bringing Iraq's Economy Back Online Middle East Quarterly Summer 2005
Reconstructing Iraq: Winning the Propaganda War in Iraq Middle East Quarterly Summer 2005
The Iraq Museum, Reloaded Tech Central Station May 10, 2005
Let Iraq handle Sunnis Baltimore Sun May 10, 2005
That Occupation Feeling National Review Online April 18, 2005
Kanan Makiya: "All Levels of the Iraqi Government Were Complicit." Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
King Abdullah II: "Iraq is the Battleground - the West against Iran" Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
Iraq has voted Wall Street Journal January 31, 2005
A Fresh Start National Review Online January 28, 2005
Bush Marches Into a Second Term, His Agenda Set by Mideast Foes Forward January 28, 2005
Democracy on the Wing Washington Post January 26, 2005
Listen to the Iraqis National Review Online January 7, 2005
Vacancy National Review Online December 10, 2004
What's Going Right in Iraq Los Angeles Times October 24, 2004
Al-Kut, Iraq: After-Battle Report Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Salem Chalabi: Judging Saddam Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Understanding Muqtada al-Sadr Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Iraq's Electoral System: A Misguided Strategy Arab Reform Bulletin September 2004
Losing the Shia National Review Online August 19, 2004
Out of Iraq, Out of Mind New Observer August 10, 2004
CPA, R.I.P. National Review Online June 28, 2004
The Wrong Elections For Iraq Washington Post June 19, 2004
U.S. Culture Corps Middle East Quarterly Summer 2004
Ahmad Chalabi: "The Biggest Error Was Occupation" Middle East Quarterly Summer 2004
Iraq won't be perfect, but victory is still in reach Australian Financial Review March 12, 2004
Saddam's Press Lackey and "Peace" Activist in America FrontPageMagazine.com March 4, 2004
Museum Madness in Baghdad Middle East Quarterly Spring 2004
Iraq for the Iraqis: How and When Middle East Quarterly Spring 2004
Saddam's "Engaging Smile" Middle East Quarterly Winter 2004
Ansar al-Islam: Back in Iraq Middle East Quarterly Winter 2004
"Thank you for everything. But do not stay." Middle East Quarterly Fall 2003
Resistance in Iraq Middle East Quarterly Fall 2003
Iraqi Assyrians: Barometer of Pluralism Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
Iraqi Kurds: Hour of Power? Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
NY Times Mobile Headline Lab Found in Iraqi Desert Middle East Quarterly June 2003
Confessions of an Anti-Sanctions Activist Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
The Saddam Soliloquy Middle East Quarterly Spring 2003
Iraq and Syria: The Dilemma of Dynasty Middle East Quarterly Spring 2002
Jalal Talabani: "No Grounds for a Relationship with Baghdad" Middle East Quarterly Winter 2002
Syria and Iraq – Repression Middle East Quarterly Winter 2001
Target Iraq's Republican Guard Middle East Quarterly December 1996
If Baghdad Accepts U.N. Terms Middle East Quarterly June 1996
Rolf Ekéus: Dismantling Saddam's Arsenal Middle East Quarterly March 1996
Saad al-Bazzaz: An Insider's View of Iraq Middle East Quarterly December 1995
Turmoil in Iraq: Saddam's Dysfunctional Family Middle East Quarterly December 1995
Turmoil in Iraq: The Regime's #2 Defects Middle East Quarterly December 1995
Hot Spot: Turkey, Iraq, and Mosul Middle East Quarterly September 1995
An Iraqi General Defects Middle East Quarterly June 1995
The Kuwaiti Resistance Middle East Quarterly March 1995
The View From Baghdad: Tariq `Aziz Middle East Quarterly June 1994
Policy Brief: The Case for Containing Iraq Middle East Quarterly June 1994
The Last Years of Mustafa Barzani Middle East Quarterly June 1994

Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War
by Simon Serfaty
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2009
Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq
by Robert Earle
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
Circle in the Sand: The Bush Dynasty in Iraq
by Christian Alfonsi
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
British Policy in Mesopotamia, 1903-1914
by Stuart A. Cohen
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
Baghdad at Sunrise
by Peter R. Mansoor
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
War and Decision
by Douglas J. Feith
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009
Swimming Up the Tigris
by Barbara Nimri Aziz
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009
Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction
by James Stephenson
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009
Escape from Saddam: The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
by Lewis Alsamari
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009
Things Fall Apart
by Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2008
A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq
by Liora Lukitz
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008
Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008
Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy
by Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008
Iraq: People, History, Politics
by Gareth Stansfield
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008
Cradle of Conflict: Iraq and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Military
by Michael Knights
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008
Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success
by Anthony H. Cordesman
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2008
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
by Ali A. Allawi
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
by L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity
by Eric Davis
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland
by Kevin McKiernan
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
The Kurdish Nationalist Movement
by David Romano
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Iraq and Back: Inside the War to Win the Peace
by Kim Olson
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq
by Ahmad S. Hashim
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Blind into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq
by James Fallows
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Turkey's Policy towards Northern Iraq: Problems and Perspectives
by Bill Park
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2007
Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq
by Magnus T. Bernhardsson
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2006
On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom
by Gregory Fontenot, E.J. Degen, and David Tohn
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2006
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
by Peter Galbraith
New York Sun July 17, 2006
The Road to Kerbala
by Katia Jarjoura
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2006
The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose
by Anthony Zinni
New York Sun April 12, 2006
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor
New York Sun April 12, 2006
Revolt on the Tigris: The al-Sadr Uprising and the Governing of Iraq
by Mark Etherington
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
The History of Iraq
by Courtney Hunt
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey through Iraq
by Hadani Ditmars
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict
by Edwin Black
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
Among Warriors in Iraq
by Mike Tucker
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
by L. Paul Bremer III
Armed Forces Journal March 2006
Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Role of Military Intelligence Assessments
by Gregory Hooker
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco
by David L. Phillips
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
The Kurds in Iraq
by Kerim Yildiz
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
Daily Star (Beirut) December 20, 2005
In the Red Zone: A Journey into the Soul of Iraq
by Steven Vincent
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2005
Hell Is Over, Voices of the Kurds after Saddam
by Mike Tucker
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2005
Among the "Others": Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq
by Scott Taylor
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2005
What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building
by Noah Feldman
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
Operation Iraqi Freedom and the New Iraq: Insights and Forecasts Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
Disarming Iraq
by Hans Blix
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
Dark Victory: America's Second War against Iraq
by Jeffrey Record
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq
by Kanan Makiya
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War against Al Qaeda Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Iraq's Burdens: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment
by Abbas Alnasrawi
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2004
The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division?
by Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2004
Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq
by Tariq Ali
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2004
Saddam: King of Terror
by Con Coughlin
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2004
Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy
by Gareth R. Stansfield
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2004
Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer
by Michael Ratner, Jennie Green, and Barbara Olshansky
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2004
War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons against War on Iraq
by Milan Rai
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
La question irakienne
by Pierre-Jean Luizard
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
Ayatollahs, Sufis, and Ideologues: State, Religion, and Social Movements in Iraq Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
Disarming Iraq: Monitoring Power and Resistance
by Michael V. Deaver
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2003
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda
by Khidhir Hamza, with Jeff Stein
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2002
Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq
by Sarah Graham-Brown
Middle East Quarterly June 2000
Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein
by David Wurmser
Middle East Quarterly September 1999
Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All
by Scott Ritter
Middle East Quarterly September 1999
Common Ground on Iraq-Kuwait Reconciliation
by Sami al-Faraj and Laith Kubba
Middle East Quarterly March 1999
Building Towards Crisis: Saddam Husayn's Strategy for Survival
by Amatzia Baram
Middle East Quarterly March 1999
Iraq Strategy Review: Options for U.S. Policy Middle East Quarterly March 1999
Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq
by Ofra Bengio
Middle East Quarterly June 1998
The Making of the Gulf War: Origins of Kuwait's Long-Standing Territorial Dispute with Iraq
by H. Rahman
Middle East Quarterly June 1998
After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?: My Encounters With Kurdistan
by Jonathan C. Randal
Middle East Quarterly March 1998
War in the Gulf, 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications
by Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb
Middle East Quarterly December 1997
The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice
by Geoff Simons
Middle East Quarterly September 1997
The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951
by Moshe Gat
Middle East Quarterly September 1997
Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam's War Machine
by Mark Phythian
Middle East Quarterly September 1997
Circle of Fear: My Life as an Israeli and Iraqi Spy
by Hussein Sumaida, with Carole Jerome
Middle East Quarterly March 1996
Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy Middle East Quarterly March 1995
The Economy of Iraq: Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010
by Abbas Alnasrawi
Middle East Quarterly March 1995
The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf, and the Shi'i International
by Chedli Mallat
Middle East Quarterly June 1994
Iraq's Road to War Middle East Quarterly June 1994
Expert Witness: A Defense Correspondent's Gulf War, 1990-91
by Christopher Bellamy
Middle East Quarterly June 1994

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