{"id":39817,"date":"2019-10-22T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=39817"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:16:02","slug":"mako-publishes-paper-on-de-bathification-in-post-2003-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/10\/22\/mako-publishes-paper-on-de-bathification-in-post-2003-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Mako Publishes Paper on De-Ba\u2018thification In Post-2003 Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shamiran Mako<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent paper\u00a0as part of the Project on Middle East Political Science\u2019s Report on Religion, Violence, and the State in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mako’s paper, entitled “Institutionalizing Exclusion: De-Ba\u2018thification In Post-2003 Iraq,” can be read here<\/a>. From the text of the article:<\/p>\n

The American invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq in 2003 was accompanied by an almost entire institutional reconfiguration of the state. After regime change toppled the Ba\u2018thist autocracy, the occupation was characterized by failed statebuilding resulting in elite fractionalization, ethnic exclusion, and socio-economic and political decline.\u00a0This article examines institutional failures that impeded democratic consolidation in post-2003 Iraq. I argue that the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) cemented patterns of exclusion and ethnic dominance through the creation of the de-Baathification Commission immediately following the invasion.<\/p>\n

The Commission\u2019s pervasive purging of former Ba\u2018thists signaled to the Sunni-Arab community that their status had been relegated to that of a\u00a0\u00a0persona non grata\u00a0<\/em>(see Haddad in this collection),\u00a0 which crystalized the community\u2019s intransigence toward accepting the new political order. As a result, the absence of parallel, cross-communal peacebuilding initiatives intensified interethnic distrust of the statebuilding process, which exacerbated communal fractionalization and exclusion\u00a0at the onset of the transition. Far from being an instrument of transitional justice, de-Ba\u2018thification became a jurisdictional tool for institutionalizing discrimination by previously excluded Shia and Kurdish elites who captured the political playing field post-2003. As a discriminatory institution\u00a0advocated largely by Shia elites in exile and Kurdish elites in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), it intensified segmental\u00a0 cleavages \u00a0and markedly altered the country\u2019s democratic transition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shamiran Mako\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics with a focus on authoritarianism, civil wars, democratization, institutional capacity building, governing in divided societies, and American foreign policy with a regional interest on the Middle East and North Africa. Specifically, she explores the historical and contemporary drivers of inter and intra-state conflicts that produce weak and fragile states and examines ways in which successful conflict mitigating strategies relating to post-conflict state and peacebuilding can be applied to states in the MENA region.<\/span><\/p>\n

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