Nation-State Building, National Identity and Rebuilding Prosess in Iraq: Historical Experiences and Future Horizons

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AlthoughIraqis a country of 90 years history, it has not solved its essential infrastructural problems yet. Here six prominent reasons are mentioned for these unsolved problems. One of them is nation-state building process which is explained in. three different levels: first, state building, nation building and country rebuilding. The first level explains about the British Force's role in incomplete state-building inIraq, Iraqi military forces' control on political power and their presence in government, and finally the presence of a reinter government inIraq. The second level is about the nation building process. And the third one tells us about rebuildingIraqafter 2003 and future prospects with regard to the historical experiences.

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