The author identifies the roots of organized crime in Ba'athist Iraq and reports on major criminal activities including the theft, diversion, and smuggling of o

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" Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democra

Examines the deleterious effects of the U.S. failure to focus on protecting the Iraqi population for most of the military campaign in Iraq and analyzes the fail

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