From Developmental Nationalism to the End of Nation-state in Iraq?
This article argues that a strong form of developmental nationalism lay at the root of the consolidation of the nation-state in Iraq. The Islamic communal and cultural nationalisms which came with the failures of developmentalism and the slide towards progressively liberal economic policy were exace...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 631 - 647 |
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Apr2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=31747812&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 31747812 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01436597 TWQ jtl: Third World Quarterly issn: 01436597 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Apr2008 vid: 29 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 31747812 10.1080/01436590801931595 ppf: 631 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 136KB tig: atl: From Developmental Nationalism to the End of Nation-state in Iraq? aug: au: Bunton, Martin affil: Department of History, University of Victoria, PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P4Canada su: Nationalism Nation-state Cultural nationalism Economic policy Transition economies Political participation Civil war Practical politics Iraq sug: subj: Iraq Nationalism Nation-state Cultural nationalism Economic policy Transition economies Political participation Civil war Practical politics ab: This article argues that a strong form of developmental nationalism lay at the root of the consolidation of the nation-state in Iraq. The Islamic communal and cultural nationalisms which came with the failures of developmentalism and the slide towards progressively liberal economic policy were exacerbated successively by the privations of war with Iran, the sanctions regime and the ongoing civil war. The last, in particular, casts doubt on the continuation of the Iraqi nation-state. Iraq may thus represent the direst unfolding of the transition from developmental to cultural nationalisms threatening the end of the nation-state itself. Drawing on comparisons with the economic strategies of other Middle Eastern states - where the politics of nationalism were highly implicated in the development agendas of the 1950s and 1960s and the economic liberalisation policies of the 1970s and 1980s - the article argues that the policies of the Iraqi state became the main focus of political action within its borders as soon as the state came into existence. Contrary to widespread notions about the 'artificiality' of the Iraqi state, and thus the 'naturalness' of its possibly impending dismemberment along ethnic and religious lies, Iraq's unravelling, if it happens, will have been the result of the increasing competition for control over local resources by regional and sectarian leaders - a struggle made possible, even necessary, by the disintegration of the mechanisms of centralised governance under the US- and Britain sponsored regime. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Third World Quarterly is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Third World Quarterly holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2008 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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