© Columbia University Press
Constitution Making Under Occupation: The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq
March, 2009
Cloth, 376 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14302-8
$50.00
/ £34.50
"A comprehensive treatment of comparative constitutionalism...recommended. " — Choice
"A leading scholar of comparative constitutionalism, Andrew Arato shows remarkable breadth and erudition. He is equally at home in the world of social and political theory as well as the empirical realities of current politics, and his book will have clear and practical implications for policy." — Nathan Brown, professor of politics and international relations, George Washington University, and author of The Rule of Law in the Arab World
"Andrew Arato's book is essential reading for anyone who wants to move beyond the myth of the constitution as the expression of the constituent power of the people and understand the actual process of contemporary constitution making. Having experienced transitional constitutionalism in postcommunist Central Europe and post-apartheid South Africa, Arato finds himself in the infinitely more turbulent waters of Iraq's American-imposed constitutional revolution yet makes admirable, comparative sense of the attempt as a failed case of what he calls two-stage, 'postsovereign' constitution making." — Saïd Amir Arjomand, director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, and author of The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran