Offering a penetrating history of the formation of modern Iraq, Toby Dodge uncovers numerous troubling parallels between the policies of a declining British emp

Dodge offers a sobering look back at the first attempt by a Western power to remake Iraq in its own image.

Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq as a dictator for nearly a quarter century before the fall of his regime in 2003. Using the Ba’th party as his organ of meta-control

With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord, floundering in

The Modern History of Iraq is a remarkably readable account of contemporary Iraq, placing in historical perspective the crises and upheavals that continue to af