7 State, Oil, and War in the Formation of Iraq

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Categories of Analysis
6. 1 Landed Property, Capital Accumulation, and Polymorphous Capitalism: Egypt and the Levant 25
7. 2 State, Market, and Class: Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia 46
8. 3 Ten Propositions on Oil 68
9. 4 Regional Militaries and the Global Military-Industrial Complex 85
10. Part 2. Country/Regional Studies
11. 5 Rethinking Class and State in the Gulf Cooperation Council 105
12. 6 Capitalism in Egypt, Not Egyptian Capitalism 123
13. 7 State, Oil, and War in the Formation of Iraq 143
14. 8 Colonial Capitalism and Imperial Myth in French North Africa 161
15. 9 Lebanon Beyond Exceptionalism 179
16. Chapter 10 The US-Israeli Alliance 196
17. 11 Repercussions of Colonialism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 215
18. Notes 237
19. Selected Readings 305
20. Index 321