Mako Publishes Article on de-Ba’athification
Shamiran Mako, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding on the effects of de-Ba’athification in the lead up to and following foreign-imposed regime change in Iraq.
In the article, titled “Subverting Peace: the Origins and Legacies of de-Ba’athification in Iraq,” Mako demonstrates how exclusive and unconstrained lustration in the country created an institutional mechanism that targeted and excluded key segments of the population as perceived regime collaborators, which subverted peacebuilding during the transitional period of the occupation. She concludes by illuminating the enduring effects of exclusionary lustration on subsequent attempts at state-and peacebuilding in divided, post-colonial societies.
The full article can be read on the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding’s website.
Shamiran Mako is an assistant professor of international relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. She is also a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Political Science Department at Boston University. Her research explores the historical and contemporary drivers of inter and intra-state conflicts that produce weak and fragile states across the MENA region. She is the author of After the Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, with Valentine Moghadam (forthcoming June 2021). Read more about Professor Mako on her faculty profile.