Constitution Making Under Occupation: The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq

Andrew Arato

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March, 2009
Cloth, 376 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14302-8
$50.00 / £34.50

Preface

1. The Externally Imposed Revolution and Its Destruction of the Iraqi State

2. Postsovereign Constitution Making: The New Paradigm (and Iraq)

3. Sistani Versus Bremer: The Emergence of the Two-Stage Model in Iraq

4. Imposition and Bargaining in the Making of the Interim Constitution

5. The Making of the “Permanent” Constitution

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Law and Legal Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Political Theory

Series

• Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History

About the Author

Andrew Arato is Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory at the New School for Social Research and founding editor of the journal Constellations. He has advised constitution makers in Nepal and the Hungarian parliament, and his books include Civil Society and Political Theory; Civil Society, Constitution, and Legitimacy; From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory; The Young Lukács and the Origins of Western Marxism; and Habermas on Law, Democracy, and Legitimacy.

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