Challenges of State-Building in Iraq
The Case of the Iraqi Army in Post-Saddam Era
Summary
Although most researches concluded already that Iraq’s reconstruction was a failure, answering the question implied the design of an appropriate research method and data collection/analysis, in order to frame particular characteristics of the reconstruction process. Despite the complexity of the topic and theoretical Security Sector Reform principles, which can hardly be applied to Iraq’s case, the thesis emphasizes on actors involved, their actions and connections between events, as part of a unique process.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Tables and figures
- 1 Introduction
- 1.2 Objectives and structure of research
- 1.3 Theoretical framework and research methodology
- 1.4 Relevance and impact
- 2 Methodology and research design
- 2.2 Adapting grounded theory to the research on Iraqi army’s reconstruction
- 2.3 Official documents’ selection and assessment
- 2.4 Official documents: in vivo coding and initial memo writing
- 2.5 Coding paradigm and focused coding
- 3 State-building and post-conflict reconstruction process – state of the art
- 3.2 Security Sector Reform: a critical part of state-building process
- 3.3 Transposing SSR paradigm in Iraq
- 3.4 Review of literature on state-building in Iraq
- 4 State-building and post-conflict reconstruction process – state of the art
- 4.2 The rise of military in politics: 1936–1941
- 4.3 Republican Iraq and the military regimes (1958–1968)
- 4.4 Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti
- 5 Military trends in the Middle East region
- 5.2 The military establishment and the Middle Eastern political context
- 5.3 The contemporary Middle Eastern military situation: quantitative trends
- 6 State-building in post-war Germany
- 6.2 Actors involved in Germany’s state-building
- A Administration
- B Economy
- C Relief
- D Military
- 6.3 Reconstruction in political field (Democratisation in Germany)
- 6.4 Law enforcement
- 6.5 Economic reconstruction
- 6.6 Transitional justice
- 6.7 Denazification and re-education policies: democratisation tools in West Germany?
- 7 Regime change and post-Saddam political process
- 7.2 The military campaign, stability and reconstruction strategies
- 7.3 Foreign institutional actors involved in Iraq’s management
- A US and UK institutions
- B United Nations
- 7.4 Coalition Provisional Authority: an American instrument for governing post-conflict Iraq
- 7.5 Iraqi Government Council and Iraqi Interim Government
- 8 Reconstruction of Iraqi army: the failure of an exogenous strategy
- 8.2 The central role of foreign contractors and other external entities
- 8.3 American army’s retreat from Iraq. A general perspective on Iraqi military’s reconstruction process
- 9 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Annex 1. In vivo coding samples and memos
- Annex 2. Focused coding samples
- Annex 3. Excerpts from interviews (selections)
1. ACC/ACA - Allied Control Council/Allied Control Authority, the Four/ Alliierter Kontrollrat, Vier Mächte
2. AFRICOM - (US) Africa Command
3. AMZONE/AMAZONE - American Zone
4. ANTIFAS - Antifa Kampfkomitees (Antifascist Committees)
5. ARI - (US) Army Research Institute
6. ARSOF - Army Special Operations Forces, or SOF
7. AVR - Armed Violence Reduction
8. AWOL - Absent Without Leave
9. BCSV - Badische Christliche-Soziale Volkspartei, Party in Germany
10. Bizone, Bizonia - the US and British alliance before West Germany’s reunification under FRG
11. BMM - British Military Mission (in Iraq)
12. BOG - Boots On Ground
13. CAATT - Coalition Army Advisory and Training Team
14. CAFTT - Coalition Air Force Transition Team
15. CASI - Campaign Against Sanctions in Iraq
16. CCG - Control Commission for Germany, British Element
17. CDU - Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Christian Democratic Union from Germany)
18. CDP - Christlich-Demokratische Partei (Christian Democratic Party Germany)
19. CENTCOM - US Central Command
20. CERP - Commander’s Emergency Response Program
21. CFLCC - Coalition Forces Land Component Command
22. CGAAA - Commissariat General aux Affaires Allemandes et Autrichiennes (Commissariat for German and Austrian Affairs)
23. CIA - Central Intelligence Agency (US)
24. CIAAA - Comittee Interministeriel des Affaires Allemandes et Autrichiennes (inter-ministerial Committee for German and Austrian Affairs
25. CCS - Combined Chiefs of Staff
26. CJTF-7 - Combined Joint Task Force 7
27. CJTF-Iraq - Combined Joint Task Force—Iraq
28. CJTF-7 JHQ-ST - Joint Headquarters - Support Team
←13 | 14→29. CMATT - Coalition Military Assistance Training Team
30. CONPLAN - Concept Plan
31. CONUS - Continental US (US military on US territory)
32. CPA - Coalition Provisional Authority
33. CPA-IG - CPA Inspector General
34. CPATT - Civilian Police Advisory Training Team
35. CRS - Congressional Research Service (US Congress)
36. CSIS - Center for Strategic & International Studies
37. CSS - Combined Chiefs of Staff
38. CSU - Christlich-Soziale Union (Christian-Social Union in Germany)
39. CTS - Counter-Terrorism Service (Iraq)
40. DAC - Development Assistance Committee
41. DANA - Deutsche Allgemeine Nachrichten Agentur (German General Information Agency)
42. DCG, A&T – Deputy Commander General, Advising and Training US
43. DDR - Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration
44. DEA - (US) Drug Enforcement Administration
45. DEF - Disarmed Enemy Forces
46. DFI - Development Fund for Iraq
47. DM - Deutsche Mark (German Mark)
48. DOD - US Department of Defense
49. DOS - US Department of State
50. EAC - European Advisory Commission/Council
51. ECA - Economic Cooperation Administration
52. EIPG - Energy Infrastructure Planing Group
53. EPC - European Production Center, US Information Service
54. ERP - European Recovery Program, or the Marshall Plan
55. ERSC/ESC/EPC - European (Regional) Service Center (aka European Production Center) of the US Information Service
56. ESF - Economic Support Fund
57. ETOUSA - European Theater of Operations, US
58. EUCOM - (US military) European Command
59. FDP - Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)
60. FMS - (US) Foreign Military Sales
61. FOIA - Freedom of Information Act
62. FinCEN - Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
63. FRG - Federal Republic of Germany
64. FM- Field Manual
65. FY - Financial Year
←14 | 15→66. GAO - General Accounting Office (renamed the Government Accountability Office in July 2004)
67. GARIOA - Government Appropriations for Relief in Occupied Areas
68. GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
69. GCC - Gulf Cooperation Council
70. GCCs - Geographic Combatant Commanders
71. GDP - Gross Domestic Product
72. GDR - German Democratic Republic
73. GE - General Electric, US company
74. GMZFO - Gouvernement Militaire de la Zone Française d’Occupation
75. GOI - Government of Iraq
76. HCRFS - Haut Commisariat de la Republique Francaise en Sarre
77. HICOG - (US) High Commissioner for Germany
78. HQ EUCOM - Headquarters European Command
79. IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
80. IAMB - International Advisory and Monitoring Board
81. IBC - Iraqi Body Count
82. ICDC - Iraqi Civil Defence Corps
83. ICTF - Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Force
84. IDPS - Internally Displaced Persons
85. IGC - Iraqi Governing Council
86. IIG - Iraqi Interim Government
87. IMF - International Monetary Fund
88. IMIK - Islamic Movement of Iraqi Kurdistan
89. INA - Iraqi National Accord
90. INC - Iraqi National Council
91. INCTF - Iraqi National Counter-Terrorism Force
92. INIS - Iraqi National Intelligence Service
93. IRMO - Iraqi Reconstruction Management Office
94. IRO - International Refugee Organisation
95. IRRF - Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund
96. IS - Islamic State
97. ISAM - US Iraq Security and Advisory Mission
98. ISF - Iraqi Security Forces
99. ISPO - Iraq Strategic Partnership Office
100. ITAM - US Iraq Training and Advisory Mission
101. ITAO - Iraqi Transition Assistance Office
102. ITT - Intelligence Transition Team
103. IW - Irregular Warfare
←15 | 16→104. IST - Iraqi Special Tribunal
105. JCS-US- Joint Chiefs of Staff
106. JEIA - Joint Export-Import Agency
107. JHQ-TT - Joint Headquarters-Transition Team
108. JP - Joint (Operations) Plan
109. KBR - Kellogg, Brown and Root
110. KDP - Kurdistan Democratic Party
111. KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Credit Institution for Reconstruction)
112. KPD - Komunistische Partei Deutschlands (German Communist Party)
113. KSA - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
114. LDP - Liberal-Demokratische Partei (Liberal-Democrat Party)
115. LOGCAP - Logistics Civil Augmentation Program
116. MaSTT - Maritime Strategic Transition Team
117. MCM - Movement for Constitutional Monarchy
118. ME - Middle East
119. MENA - Middle East and North Africa
120. MNF - Multi-National Force
121. MNF-I - Multinational Force (in) Iraq
122. MNSTC-I - Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq
123. MOD - Ministry of Defence
124. MOD-TT - Ministry of Defence-Transition Team
125. MOI - Ministry of Interior
126. MOI-TT - Ministry of Interior-Transition Team
127. MG - Military Government
128. MSA - Mutual Security Agency
129. NATO - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
130. NGCC - North German Coal Control
131. NGISC - North German Iron and Steel Control
132. NGO - Non-governmental Organisation
133. NIA -New Iraqi Army
134. NRC - National Research Council
135. NSPD - National Security Presidential Directive (US)
136. NORTHCOM - Northern Command
137. NTM-I - NATO Training Mission Iraq
138. OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
139. OHCHR - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
140. OIF - Operation Iraqi Freedom
141. OMA - Operation and Maintenance, Army (US)
←16 | 17→142. OMGUS - Office of Military Government, US Zone
143. OPLAN - Operations Plan
144. OPEC - Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
145. ORHA - Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance
146. OSC-I TT - Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq Transition Team
147. OSS - Office of Strategic Services (US)
148. PACOM - Pacific Command (US)
149. PMCs - Private Military Contractors
150. POWs - Prisoners of War
151. PRTs - Provincial Reconstruction Teams
152. PSCs - Private Security Contractors
153. PSG-I - Partnership Strategy Group-Iraq
154. PSYOPS - Psychological Operations
155. PSCs - Private Security Contractors
156. PUK - Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
157. RAF - Royal Air Force (UK)
158. RCC - Revolutionary Command Council
159. RIO - Restore Iraqi Oil
160. RM - Reichsmarken
161. RCLO - Regime Crimes Liaison Office
162. SALW - Small Arms And Light Weapons
163. SAO - Security Assistance Office)
164. SCIRI - Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
165. SDAP - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party)
166. SEAAA - Sécrétariat d’État aux Affaires Allemandes et Autrichiennes (State Secretariat for German and Austrian Affairs)
167. SED - Social Unity Party (Germany)
168. SHAEF - Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces
169. SIGIR - Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
170. SIPRI - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
171. SOF - Special Operations Forces
172. SOF UW - Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare
173. SORO - Special Operations Research Office
174. SOUTHCOM - South Command (US military)
175. SSR - Security Sector Reform
176. SPD - Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party)
177. SRO - Stability and Reconstruction Operations
←17 | 18→178. SSR - Security Sector Reform
179. SVHP - Sozialer Volksbund Hessen-Pfalz
180. TAL - Transitional Administrative Law
181. TFI - Treasury’s Office of International Affairs and Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
182. TFIV - Task Force IV
183. UAR - United Arab Republic
184. UK - United Kingdom
185. UN - United Nations (Organisation)
186. UNAMI - United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
187. UNCT - United Nations Country Team
188. UNDP - United Nations Development Program
189. UNICEF - UN Children’s Fund
190. UNMOVIC - United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
191. UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
192. UNSC - United Nations Security Council
Details
- Pages
- 342
- Publication Year
- 2020
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783034341189
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783034341196
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783034341202
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034340519
- DOI
- 10.3726/b17136
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (January)
- Keywords
- Sicherheitssektorreform Geschichte des Irak Koalition der willigen Übergangsverwaltung der Koalition im Irak Gegenstandsbezogene Theoriebildung
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 342 pp., 18 fig. col., 6 fig. b/w, 11 tables.
