商品簡介
Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and the killing of intellectuals? Conventional wisdom portrays these events as the result of poor planning and accidents of war in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. However, the authors of this book argue that the reality is very different.
The authors reveal that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state in order to remake it as a client regime. The post-invasion chaos was not an accident but a deliberate aim of the invasion, creating conditions under which the cultural foundations of the state could be undermined. The authors account for the willful inaction of the occupying forces, which led to the ravaging of one of the world's oldest recorded cultures. In addition to the destruction of unprotected museums and libraries, they document the targeted assassination of over 400 academics, widespread kidnapping and the forced flight of thousands of doctors, lawyers, artists and other intellectuals.
作者簡介
Raymond William Baker is Professor of International Politics at Trinity College, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. His most recent book is Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists.
Shereen T. Ismael is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and MSW Field Coordinator in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. In addition to her book Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State: from Entitlement to Charity (2006), she is the editor of Globalization: Policies, Challenges and Responses (1999).
Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada and is co-Editor of the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. He is the author, co-author or editor of more than 30 books including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq (2008); The Communist Movement in the Arab World (2005); The Iraqi Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics (with Jacqueline S. Ismael; Pluto Press, 2004); and Iraq: The Human Cost of History (Pluto Press, 2003).
