Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Agendas for change -- PART I: State of conflict -- 2. "Everything has to change for everything to remain the same": The Muhassasa Ta'ifiya, the exclusive elite pact, and the cau -- 3. A sectarian awakening: The reinvention of Sunni identity, 2003-2014 -- 4. Agonistic democracy in Iraq: The fall and rise of Muqtada al-Sadr
5. From sect-based coalition-building to competition for control over local constituencies: Transformation of post-2003 electo -- PART II: Migrations -- 6. Borders, migration, and the state -- 7. Displacement and state transformation: The coercion and systemic discarding of the Mandaeans and Palestinians of Iraq 2003- -- PART III: Nation and nationalisms -- 8. Regime change and national integration policy: Focusing on Iraqi school textbooks before and after the 2003 US invasion -- 9. Challenges for the Kurdistan Region: Disputed territories and Kurdistani identity -- PART IV: Iraq in the region
10. Iraq-Syria relations: The Iraq War and after -- 11. Iranian-Iraqi relations 2003-2013: Iran's influence in post- Saddam Iraq -- 12. Epilogue -- Index
