Occupying Iraq : a history of the Coalition Provisional Authority /

Occupying Iraq : a history of the Coalition Provisional Authority /

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Imprint:Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2009.
Description:xlvi, 364 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Bremer, L. Paul.
Bremer, L. Paul.
Coalition Provisional Authority.
Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq.
Politics and government
Postwar reconstruction.
Coalition Provisional Authority.
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-
Iraq.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7712391
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Other authors / contributors:Dobbins, James, 1942-
Coalition Provisional Authority.
International Security and Defense Policy Center.
ISBN:9780833046659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0833046659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:"MG-847-CC"--P. [4] of cover.
"The research described in this report was sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Security Research Division."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340) and index.
Also issued online.
Summary:"The American engagement in Iraq has been looked at from many perspectives: the flawed intelligence that provided the war's rationale, the failed effort to secure an international mandate, the rapid success of the invasion, and the long ensuing counterinsurgency campaign. This book focuses on the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority and its administrator, L. Paul Bremer, who governed Iraq from May 2003 to June of the following year. It is based on interviews with many of those responsible for setting and implementing occupation policy, on the memoirs of American and Iraqi officials who have since left office, on journalists' accounts of the period, and on nearly 100,000 never-before-released CPA documents. The book recounts and evaluates the efforts of the United States and its coalition partners to restore public services, reform the judicial and penal systems, fight corruption, revitalize the economy, and create the basis for representative government. It also addresses the occupation's most striking failure: the inability of the United States and its coalition partners to protect the Iraqi people from the criminals and extremists in their midst." --P. [4] of cover.

Focuses on the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority during the first year of the occupation of Iraq. Based on interviews and nearly 100,000 never-before-released documents from CPA archives, the book recounts and evaluates the efforts of the United States and its coalition partners to restore public services, counter a burgeoning insurgency, and create the basis for representative government. Excerpted from Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Benjamin Runkle All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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