Occupying Iraq : a history of the coalition provisional authority / James Dobbins ... [et al.].

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Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2009Description: xlvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

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0833046659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0833047248 (electronic bk.)
9780833046659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780833047243 (electronic bk.)

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DS79.769 .O33 2009

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Contents:

The Origin of the CPA -- Building the CPA -- Creating the Governing Council -- Establishing Security -- Governing Iraq -- Promoting the Rule of Law -- Growing the Economy -- Running the CPA -- Promoting Democracy -- Disarming Militias and Countering Insurgents -- Exit and Appraisal.

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.

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"RAND National Security Research Division."

"This research ... was conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center within RAND National Security Research Division (NSRD)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340).

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.

Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.