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Iraq After Saddam: The road to democracy?

The consequences of the 2003 invasion of Iraq so far have been insurgency and terrorism on a new scale, an appalling - but uncounted - Iraqi death toll, but also the first democratic elections since the country achieved independence more than 70 years ago.

The shifting justifications for this preemptive war, and the unprecedented security measures taken since throughout the world, are have serious implications for the very civil liberties and democratic principles the war was fought to uphold. We untangle the background to this unfinished story.

Published: April 2005 ISBN: 0850487722

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