Irag Study & Guide - AllRefer

* Country Profile
o COUNTRY
o GEOGRAPHY
o SOCIETY
o ECONOMY
o TRANSPORTATION
o GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
o NATIONAL SECURITY
* Introduction
* Historical Setting
o ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
+ Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria
+ Iranian and Greek Intrusions
o THE ARAB CONQUEST AND THE COMING OF ISLAM
+ The Sunni-Shia Controversy
+ The Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1258
+ The Mongol Invasion
o THE OTTOMAN PERIOD, 1534-1918
o WORLD WAR I AND THE BRITISH MANDATE
o IRAQ AS AN INDEPENDENT MONARCHY
o REPUBLICAN IRAQ
o COUPS, COUP ATTEMPTS, AND FOREIGN POLICY
o THE EMERGENCE OF SADDAM HUSAYN, 1968-79
o THE IRAN-IRAQ CONFLICT
* The Society and Its Environment
o GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION
+ Boundaries
+ Major Geographical Features
+ Settlement Patterns
+ Climate
+ Population
+ The People
+ Kurds
+ Other Minorities
o RELIGIOUS LIFE
+ Islam
# Sunnis
# Shias
+ Sunni-Shia Relations in Iraq
o SOCIAL SYSTEMS
+ Rural Society
+ Impact of Agrarian Reform
+ Urban Society
+ Stratification and Social Classes
o FAMILY AND SOCIETY
o EDUCATION AND WELFARE
+ Education
+ Health
+ Welfare
* The Economy
o GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY
o THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
o BANKING AND FINANCE
o THE OIL SECTOR
+ Developments Through World War II
+ The Turkish Petroleum Company
+ Post-World War II Through the 1970s
+ Oil in the 1980s
o INDUSTRIALIZATION
o AGRICULTURE
+ Water Resources
+ Land Tenure and Agrarian Reform
+ Cropping and Livestock
o TRANSPORTATION
+ Roads
+ Railroads
+ Ports
+ Airports
o TELECOMMUNICATIONS
o ELECTRICITY
o FOREIGN TRADE
* Government and Politics
o CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
o GOVERNMENT
+ The Revolutionary Command Council
+ The National Assembly
+ The President and the Council of Ministers
+ The Judiciary
+ Local Government
+ Kurdish Autonomy
o POLITICS
+ The Baath Party
+ The Politics of Alliance: The Progressive National Front
+ Political Opposition
o MASS MEDIA
o FOREIGN POLICY
+ The Soviet Union
+ The West
+ The Persian Gulf Countries
+ Iraq and Other Arab Countries
+ Relations with Other Countries
+ Participation in International Organizations
* National Security
o NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS
o THE REGULAR ARMED FORCES
+ Size, Equipment, and Organization
+ Manpower and Training
+ Conditions of Service and Morale
+ Military Justice System
+ Uniforms and Rank Insignia
o PARAMILITARY FORCES
o FOREIGN MILITARY TIES
+ Military Ties Prior to the Iran-Iraq War
+ The Iran-Iraq War and the Quest for New Sources of Arms
+ Arms from the Soviet Union
+ Arms from France
+ The Search for Nuclear Technology
o THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR
+ Iraqi Offensives, 1980-82
+ Iraqi Retreats, 1982-84
+ The War of Attrition, 1984-87
+ The Tanker War, 1984-87
o ARMED FORCES AND SOCIETY
+ Status in National Life
+ The Sociology of the Military
+ The Defense Burden
+ The Impact of Casualties on the Armed Forces
+ Treatment of Veterans and Widows
o INTERNAL SECURITY
+ Internal Developments and Security
# The Kurdish Problem
# The Iraqi Communists and Baathist Iraq
# Impact of the Iranian Revolution on Iraqi Shias
+ Internal Security in the 1980s
+ Incidence of Crime
+ Criminal Justice System
* Appendix. Tables
* Glossary