History Matters: Past as Prologue in Building Democracy in Iraq
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Eric Davis ([email protected]) is professor of political science at Rutgers University and former director of Rutgers’ Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 2005). This article is based on his presentation at FPRI’s October 2004 History Institute, ‘‘A New Middle East?’’ See www.fpri.org for a report on the full conference.
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