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Occupying Iraq

A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority

by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Benjamin Runkle, Siddharth Mohandas

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter One

    The Origin of the CPA

  • Chapter Two

    Building the CPA

  • Chapter Three

    Creating the Governing Council

  • Chapter Four

    Establishing Security

  • Chapter Five

    Governing Iraq

  • Chapter Six

    Promoting the Rule of Law

  • Chapter Seven

    Growing the Economy

  • Chapter Eight

    Running the CPA

  • Chapter Nine

    Promoting Democracy

  • Chapter Ten

    Disarming Militias and Countering Insurgents

  • Chapter Eleven

    Exit and Appraisal

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