Petroleum and Politics in Iraq

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

CHAPTER ONE - THE IMPORTANCE OF IRAQ

1.1 A Complex Mix - Hydrocarbons, Conflict and the State

1.2 The Importance of Iraq

1.3 In Focus

1.4 Research Approach and Structure

CHAPTER TWO - THEORY: ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND COERCION

2.1 Setting the Stage

2.2 Rentier State Theory

2.3 Moving Beyond Early RST

2.4 Implications of Rentier State Theory - A Closer Look

2.5 Rentier Links to Authoritarianism

2.6 Migdal and the Politics of Survival

2.7 Viewing Survival Politics through Different Prisms

2.8 Paradox, Dilemma, and Options for Leadership

2.9 The Politics of Survival - Implications

2.10 The Role of Coercion

2.11 Giustozzi's Seven Hypotheses

2.12 Phases of a State's Life

2.13 Remember the Monopoly

2.14 Impacts of International Intervention

2.15 Theory to Praxis

CHAPTER THREE - IRAQ'S ECONOMY OVER TIME: FROM ROYALTY TO RENTS

3.1 Monarchy, Mandate, and Independence

3.2 The Revolutionary Period

3.3 The Ba'ath through Saddam - Boom, Bust and War

3.4 Iraq Under Sanctions

3.5 Iraq after 2003

3.6 Oil and the New Iraq

3.7 An Analysis

CHAPTER FOUR - THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL

4.1 The British - War, Mandate, Monarchy to the Eve of Revolution (1914-1958)

4.2 The Revolutionary Period (1958-1968)

4.3 The Return of the Ba'ath (1968-1978)

4.4 Iraq Under Saddam

4.5 The US Invasion, Withdrawal and Aftermath

4.6 Iraq and the Politics of Survival - an Assessment

CHAPTER FIVE - COERCION AND THE IRAQI STATE

5.1 Monarchy, Mandate, Independence and the Monopoly

5.2 Revolutionary Iraq

5.3 The Rise of the Ba'ath through Saddam

5.4 America, Collapse and the Struggle Renewed

5.5 Assessment - Iraq and Coercion

CHAPTER SIX - CONCLUSION: THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

6.1 Framework and Findings

6.2 Insights and Implications

6.3 The Primacy of the Political

6.4 On International Intervention

6.5 Looking Behind, Looking Ahead

EPILOGUE

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 - United Nations Security Information Report 08 December 2005

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX