Role Of The Military In Politics: A Case Study of Iraq to 1941

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Foreword
Note on transliteration
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
I The beginning of the state
II Structural instability
	The structure and distribution of the population
	The tribes and the system of land tenure
	Summary
III The creation of the state
	A review of British interests in Iraq between the two world wars
	The creation of the monarchy
	The Iraqi political system
	The structure of the Iraqi cabinet from October 1920 to October 1936
	The nature of opposition between 1920 and October 1936
	Conclusions
IV The army
	Introduction
	The formation of the Iraq army
	Organisation and composition
	The expansion of the army, 1921-36
V First ventures of the army into politics
	The Assyrian question
	The significance of King Faisal's death
	Revolt and containment: the tribal uprising of 1935-6
VI The Bakir Sidqi coup d'état of October 1936
	The possible causes of the coup and the ideology and social characteristics of its leaders
	The attitude of the King
	The attitude of Britain
	The end of the coup government
VII Coups and counter-coups
	Iraqi governments between August 1937 and May 1941
	The fourth coup
VIII The Rashid 'Ali coup and British intervention
IX Conclusions
Appendices
	I The programme of the Popular Reform League
	II Translation of 'Programme of Policy' issued by the cabinet of Saiyid Hikmat Sulaiman
	III Kurdish petition
	IV Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 30 June 1930, and notes exchanged embodying a separate financial agreement, 19 August 1930, with various explanatory notes, both published and unpublished
Notes
Bibliography
Index