A Model for Post-Saddam Iraq

Issue Date July 2003
Volume 14
Issue 3
Page Numbers 5-12
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If Iraq is successfully to democratize and an inclusive democratic culture is to emerge, the Iraqi state must be reconstituted as a federal and strongly liberal system and thoroughly demilitarized.

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