Death, Dominance, and State-Building

Section One: Framework Chapter One: Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Intervention Chapter Two: Analytical Framework I: Roles and Strategy Chapter Three: Analytical Framework II: Mechanisms and Strategy Chapter Four: US Counterinsurgency Strategy and Practice Section Two: The Iraq Conflict 2003-2011 Preview to Section II Chapter Five: Violence, State-Building, and the Sunni-Shia Cleavage Chapter Six: Ghazaliyah: Sunni Mobilization, Sectarian War, US Success and Failure Chapter Seven: Sadr City, the Mahdi Army, and the Sectarian Cleansing of Baghdad Chapter Eight: Mansour: The Failure to Mobilize Moderates Chapter Nine: The Failure to Establish Local Security Chapter Ten: Captain Wright Goes to Baghdad (co-written with Timothy Wright) Chapter Eleven: Anbar, 2003-2011: The Generation of a Community Mobilization Strategy (co-written with Jon Lindsay) Chapter Twelve: The Battle of Sadr City, 2008: Innovations in Urban Counterinsurgency Chapter Thirteen: The Surge: A Reconsideration Chapter Fourteen: Iraqi Kurdistan: Dual Cleavages and their Effect on War and State-Building Section Three: Iraq 2011-2020 Preview to Section III Chapter Fifteen: Hawija: Explaining Sunni Resurgence Chapter Sixteen: The Third Iraq War Chapter Seventeen: Hybrid Actors: The Emergence and Persistence of the Popular Mobilization Forces Chapter Eighteen: How Minorities Make Their Way in Post-ISIS Iraq: The Case of Christian Militias in the Nineveh Plain (co-written with Matt Cancian) Chapter Nineteen: The Kurdistan Regional Governate Revisited: Death, War, Machinations, and Little Change Chapter Twenty: The Decline of Dominance Politics? Emotions and Institutions in Iraq Ten Years After the 2011 US Withdrawal Section Four: The Future of American Military Intervention Preview to Section IV Chapter Twenty-One: Findings and Lessons Chapter Twenty-Two: Constraints on Learning: The Influence of the Changing International System and US Domestic Politics Chapter Twenty-Three: The Future of American Military Intervention Appendices: Appendix A: Application of Framework to Classic Theories of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Appendix B: An Application of the Framework to Review Recent Social Science Literature Bibliography Notes Index