Constitution Making Under Occupation - The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq
epub | 16.85 MB | English | Author :Arato, Andrew; | 978-0-231-51243-5 | 2009 | Columbia University Press

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The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents. Andrew Arato is the first person to record this historic process and analyze its special problems. He compares the drafting of the Iraqi constitution to similar, externally imposed constitutional revolutions by the United States, especially in Japan and Germany, and identifies the political missteps that contributed to problems of learning and legitimacy.

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