A year after the third Gulf war and the fall of Saddam Hussein, the process of political reconstruction in Iraq under U.S. stewardship is beginning to reveal its weakness. From the outset, the United States centered on two communities that had been kept out of power since the founding of the Iraqi nation-state, the Shi'a majority and the Kurds. The Sunni Arabs, the foundation of Saddam's regime, felt marginalized. The problem is that a "Lebanese" style reconstruction, where each faction is accorded power not according to its political opinions or competencies, but rather simply its membership in a given community, could rapidly reach an impasse. Worse, it could lead to confrontations that could degenerate into civil war.Un an après la trois...
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International audienceSince the U.S. occupation of Iraq in 2003, Pandora's box of territorial fragme...
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