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L1Introduction
L2Planning, Politics and the Idea of Post-Conflict ReconstructionAmazon logo Orr, Robert C., ed. Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. CSIS Significant Issues, No. 26. The CSIS Press, 2004. ISBN: 0892064447.

Amazon logo The World Bank. Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role of the World Bank (PDF - 4.2 MB). Washington, DC: 1998. ISBN: 0821342150.

Azimi, Nassrine, Matt Fuller, and Hiroko Nakayama, eds. Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Japan, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Afghanistan. Proceedings of an international conference in Hiroshima. New York, NY: UNITAR, 2003.

Amazon logo Addison, Tony, ed. Chapters 1 and 2 in From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 1-29. ISBN: 0199261032.

Michailof, Serge, Markus Kostner, Xavier Devictor, and Tony Addison. Post-Conflict Recovery in Africa: An Agenda for the Africa Region (PDF). Africa Region Working Paper Series No. 30, 2002.

Amazon logo Vale, Lawrence J., and Thomas J. Campanella, eds. The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0195175832.
L3International Experience: Marshall Plan, the Reconstruction of Japan, and Bosnia and HerzegovinaAmazon logo Dower, John W. "Chapters: Introduction, and Part VI: Reconstruction." In Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press, 1999, pp. 19-30, and pp. 525-547. ISBN: 0393046869.

Amazon logo Orr, Robert C., ed. "Japan: Occupation as Means to a 'Citadel of Democracy in the East'." In Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. CSIS Significant Issues, No. 26. Washington, DC: The CSIS Press, 2004, pp. 169-192. ISBN: 0892064447.

Amazon logo Maier, Charles S., ed. The Marshall Plan and Germany: West German Development within the Framework of the European Recovery Program. With the assistance of Günter Bischof. New York, NY: Berg, 1991. ISBN: 0854963065.

Amazon logo Hogan, Michael J. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947- 1952. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0521378400.

Amazon logo The World Bank. "OED - Operations Evaluation Department." In Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-Conflict reconstruction and the Transition to a Market Economy: an OED Evaluation of World Bank Support (PDF). Washington, DC: 2004. ISBN: 0821359789.
L4The U.S. Post-September 11 Reconstruction AgendaCenter for Strategic and International Studies, and the Association of the U.S. Army. Play to Win: Final Report of the bi-partisan Commission on Post-Conflict Reconstruction (PDF). U.S.A., 2003.

Amazon logo Vaishnav, Milan. "Afghanistan: The Chimera of the 'Light Footprint'." In Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. CSIS Significant Issues, No. 26. Edited by Robert C. Orr. Washington, DC: The CSIS Press, 2004, pp. 244-262. ISBN: 0892064447. 

Amazon logo Orr, Robert C., ed. "An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction." In  Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. CSIS Significant Issues, No. 26. Washington, DC: The CSIS Press, 2004, pp. 169-192. ISBN: 0892064447.

Fujimura, Manabu.Post-Conflict Reconstruction: the Afghan Economy (PDF). Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute, 2004. ISBN: 4899740034.

World Bank. Afghanistan World Bank Approach Paper. 2001.

Hanlon, Michael E. O. "The Aid and Reconstruction Agenda for Afghanistan." Analysis Paper 13. Policy Review (2001).
L5Social and Political Background for Reconstruction: Politics and Society in Iraq in the 20-21st CenturyAmazon logo Nakash, Yitzhak. The Shi'is of Iraq. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0691034311.

Amazon logo Dodge, Toby. Iraq Transformed: Violence, Poverty and War. London, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. ISBN: 140511679X.

Amazon logo ———. Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0231131666.

Amazon logo Dodge, Toby, and Steven Simon, eds. Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change. Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 019852837X.

Amazon logo Anderson, Liam, and Gareth Stansfield. Chapters 1 to 7 in The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division? New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN: 1403963541.
L6Post-war Planning: Visioning 'A new Iraq' and 'A New Middle East'Amazon logo Dodge, Toby, and Richard Higgott, eds. Globalization and the Middle East: Islam, Economy, Society, and Politics. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. ISBN: 1862031347.

Katzman, Kenneth. "Iraq's Opposition Movements (PDF)." CRS Report for Congress. June 27, 2000.
L7The U.S. Reconstruction Agenda and Projects in IraqHalchin, L. Elaine. "The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA): Origin, Characteristics, and Institutional Authorities." CRS Report for Congress. April 29, 2004.

Waterhouse, Michael, and Carolyn C. Smith. "Iraq Reconstruction Resources: Fact Sheet (PDF)." CRS Report for Congress. September 24, 2003.

Hanlon, Michael E. O. "Iraq without a Plan." Policy Review (January, 2005).

Copson, Raymond W. "Iraq War? Current Situation and Issues for Congress." CRS Report for Congress. Updated February 12, 2003.

———. "Iraq War: Background and Issues Overview (PDF)." CRS Report for Congress. Updated April 22, 2003.

———. "Iraq: Recent Developments in Reconstruction Assistance." CRS Report for Congress. Updated April 22, 2003.

Cordesman, Anthony H. "Nation Building in Iraq: A Status Report (PDF)." Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2004.
L8Constructing a New Liberal Economy in Iraq. In Addition to an Example From AfghanistanAmazon logo Alnasrawi, Abbas. Iraq's Burdens: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN: 031332459X.

Amazon logo ———. The Economy of Iraq: Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN: 0313291861.

Looney, Robert. "Neoliberalism in a Conflict State: The Viability of Economic Shock Therapy in Iraq." Strategic Insights 3, no. 6 (June 2004).

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Economic Development of Iraq. (At the Request of the Government of Iraq.) Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1952.
L9Political Reconstruction: Building a New DemocracyAmazon logo Feldman, Noah. What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0691121796.

Amazon logo Anderson, Liam, and Gareth Stansfield. "The Democracy Dilemma." Chapter 8 in The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division? New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 185-224. ISBN: 1403963541.

Amazon logo Kovsted, Jens, and Finn Tarp. "Reconstruction, Reform, and State Capacity in Guinea-Bissau." In From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. Edited by Tony Addison. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 206-227. ISBN: 0199261032.

Katzman, Kenneth. "Iraq: U.S. Regime Change Efforts and Post-Saddam Governance (PDF)." CRS Report for Congress. October 22, 2004.

Amazon logo Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "From Modernization to Democratization: The Political Economy of the "New" International Law." In Reframing the International: Law, Culture, Politics . Edited by Richard Falk, Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, and R. B. J Welker. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 137-162. ISBN: 0415931762.

Amazon logo Halperin, Morton, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael M. Weinstein. Chapter 1 in The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-24. ISBN: 041595052X.
L10The Role of International Organization in Post-Conflict ReconstructingAmazon logo "Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role of the World Bank for Reconstruction (PDF - 4.2 MB)." Washington, DC: 1998. ISBN: 0821342150.

Coipuram, Tom. "Iraq: United Nations and Humanitarian Aid Organizations (PDF)." Report for Congress. March 1, 2003. April 2003 updated version.
L11The Discourse of Iraqis and Arabs on the Reconstruction of a New IraqAmazon logo Khalidi, Rashid. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN: 0807002348.

Hassan, Abu Taleb. "Illusion of Reform." Al-Ahram Weekly. April 25, 2004.

Said, Abdel-Moneim. "Heavenly Pursuits." Al-Ahram Weekly. February 2, 2004.
L12Conclusions and Critiques: Planning and Reconstruction; Vision and Realities; Stability and Resistance in IraqAmazon logo Braude, Joseph. The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East, and the World. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2003. ISBN: 0465007880.

Cordesman, Anthony H. "Transnational Threats: The Emerging Strategic Lessons from the U.S. Intervention in Iraq (PDF)." Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2003.

Recommended Movie

Antoon, Sinan, Dir. About Baghdad.
L13CriticismOpen Society Institute and the United Nations Foundation. Iraq in Transition: Post-Conflict Challenges and Opportunities (PDF). 2004.

Said, Edward. "Global Crisis Over Iraq: The Alternative United States." MIFTAH, March 20, 2003.

Amazon logo ———. "Orientalism 25 Years Later: Worldly Humanism v. the Empire-builders." In Orientalism. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2003. ISBN: 039474067X.
L14Representations: The Idea of Post-Conflict Reconstruction

 








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