Records relating to keyword "Shi\'i politics"

• Sistani, the US and politics in Iraq: from quietism to Machiavellianism (March 2006)
  
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  Keywords: Religion Shi'i politics Sistani

  A detailed and thoroughly-researched account of the polititics of Ali al-Sistani, by Reidar Visser. This is probably the best English-language guide to Sistani's role in Iraq, as well as being written with verve and no little humour.

• US presentation on Iran military assistance to Sh'ia fighters (Feb 2007)
  
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  Keywords: Shi'i politics Iran Weapons Insurgency

  This presentation (pdf) is described as the Powerpoint presentation given to journalists by US officials in Baghdad on 11 February 2007 - at a news conference where recordings and photographs were banned - intended to present evidence of Iranian military assistance to Iraqi Sh'ia fighters. It comprises information reportedly from captured Iranian military personnel, and photographs of allegedly Iranian-sourced weaponry.

  The presentation was posted on the McClatchy Newspapers site (see http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16677416.htm for the story).

• Reidar Visser: Another Iraq deadline passes (17 Sept 2006)
  
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  Keywords: Shi'i politics Centre-state relations

  Analysis of the prospects for federalism in Iraq. Visser believes that support for federalism is quite limited, but is strongest among communities which find it difficult to communicate with the USA.

• Shi'i separatism in Iraq: internet reverie or real constitutional challenge? (Aug 2005)
  
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  Keywords: Shi'i politics Politics

  Report by Reidar Visser, for the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Visser finds that the internet has "enabled radical Shi'is outside the main clerical, intellectual and political establishments to propagate visions of an independent Shi'i state". He examines the strenghts and weaknesses of this strand of Shi'i radicalism, and its relationship with other elements of Shi'i politics

• The United States and Iraq's Shi'ite Clergy: Partners or Adversaries? (Feb 2004)
  
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  Keywords: Shi'i politics

  This monograph consists mostly of a description of the main Shi'ite political forces in Iraq and how this could affect US tactics. Written by W. Andrew Terrill for the US Army War College Stragegic Studies Institute

• Regional implications of Shi'a revival in Iraq (2004)
  
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  Keywords: Shi'i politics Politics

  Vali Nasr, in The Washington Quarterly, considers the international implications of Shi'a politics in Iraq