Research & Publications

Books

• Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq
• Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory, and Popular Culture
• Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941

Reviews of Memories of State

• International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies
• Memories of State - Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq Review

Articles

•  Iraqi Politics & Society
  • "Abd al-Karim Qasim, Sectarian Identities and the Rise of Corporatism in Iraq, Kufa Review 1/2 , Winter 2013, 9-28
  • "Review of Fanar Haddad, Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity, Middle East Journal, Winter 2012, 174-176
  • "U.S. Foreign Policy in Post-Sofa Iraq."
  • "Special issue of the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies on sectarian identities in Iraq - Eric Davis, Guest Editor."
  • "The Role of the Intellectual in Democratic Change in Iraq" (Arabic), al-Aqlam (Baghdad), 3 (June-August, 2010)
  • "Eric Davis - Sectarianism, Historical Memory and the Discourse of Othering: The Mahdi Army, Mafia, Camorra and 'Ndragheta
  • "The Political Economy of Modern Iraq," Interpreting the Middle East: Essential Themes,edited by David Sorenson. New York: Westview Press, 2010.
  • "Iraq: Understanding Autocracy," Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit, edited by Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi. New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • "Iraq,"The Modern Middle East, edited by Ellen Lust-Okar. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010.
  • "The Historical Genesis of the Public Sphere in Iraq, 1900-1963: Implications for Building Democracy in the Post Ba'thist Era," Publics, Politics, and Participation: Locating the Public Sphere in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Seteney Shami. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2009.
  • "Simulating the Iraqi Parliament: A Non-Traditional Approach to Teaching Iraqi Political Development," Newsletter of the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), (Fall 2009)
  • "A Sectarian Middle East?" International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40 (Nov 2008)
  • "Iraq," The Modern Middle East, edited by Ellen Lust-Okar. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010
  • "Executive Summary: Rebuilding a Non-Sectarian Iraq," Strategic Insights, Volume VI, Issue 6 (Dec 2007)
  • "Rebuilding a Non-Sectarian Iraq," Strategic Insights, Volume VI, Issue 6 (Dec 2007)
  • "The Puzzle of Federalism in Iraq," Middle East Report, 247 (Summer 2008)
  • "The Formation of Political Identities in Ethnically Divided Societies: Implications for a Democratic Transition in Iraq," (English | Arabic Newsletter of the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), 2/1 (Spring 2007)
  • "The New Iraq: The Uses of Historical Memory," The Journal of Democracy, 16, 3 (July 2005)
  • "History Matters: Past as Prologue in Building Democracy in Iraq," Orbis, 49, 2 (Spring 2005)
  • "Domino Democracy: The Challenges to United Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Iraq," Patriotism and Common Sense, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
  • "USIP Special Report: Strategies for Promoting Democracy in Iraq," (English | Arabic) United States Institute of Peace, Special Report 152 (Oct 2005)
  • "The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Iraq," Commemorations: The Politics of Memory and Identity, Princeton University Press, 1994
  • "State-Building in Iraq During the Iran-Iraq War & the Gulf Crisis," The Internationalization of Communal Strife, 1993
  • "Iraq's Sunni Clergy Enter the Fray," Religion in the News, 7, 3 (Winter 2005)
  • "Democracy's Prospects in Iraq," Foreign Policy Research Institute, June 30, 2004
  • "History for the Many or History for the Few? The Historiography of the Iraqi Working Class," Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East, State University of New York Press, 1994
  • "Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq," Foreign Policy Research Institute, March 27, 2003
  • "National Assembly Elections: Prelude to Democracy or Instability?" Middle East Policy (Spring 2005)
  • "The Iraqi Revolution of 1958," Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions
•  Religion & Politics in the Middle East
  • "Eric Davis, "Islamism, Authoritarianism and Democracy: a Comparative Study of Egypt and Iraq," in Modern Middle East Authoritarianism: Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis, eds." Noureddine Jebnoun, Mehrdad Kia and Mimi Kirk, New York: Routledge, 2014
  • "Reflections on Religion and Politics in Post-Ba^cthist Iraq," Newsletter of the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), 3/1 (Spring 2008)
  • "A Sectarian Middle East," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Fall 2008)
  • "Ideology, Social Class, and Islamic Radicalism in Modern Egypt," From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, 1984
  • "The Concept of Revival and the Study of Islam in Politics," The Islamic Impulse", 1987
  • "Religion Against The State" Religious Resurgence: Contemporary Cases in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, 1987.
•  The Politics of Oil
  • "Democracy in the Arab World - Explaining the Deficit"
  • "The Political Economy of the Arab Oil-Producing Nations: Convergence With Western Interests," Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1979
  • "Representations of the Middle East at American Worlds' Fairs 1876-1904," The United States and the Middle East: Cultural Encounters, 2002
•  Global Citizenship
  • "Global Citizenship: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives," Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times: Rethinking Theory and Practice, 2008

Commentary

• "How Might Tea Partiers play the Mideast?" The Daily Star, September 19, 2011
• "US must think 'democracy' in the Mid East," The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 7, 2011
• "Go, Stay or Rebuild?: The Next President, the Next Stage in Iraq," The Star Ledger, June 29, 2008
• "Baghdad's Buried Treasure," The New York Times, April 16, 2003
• "Eric Davis comments on Iraq's new Provincial Powers Law," The Jim Lehrer News Hour, June 8, 2006
• "Many Kurds Support Iraq, Not Independence," The Star Ledger, December 16, 2007
• "In Iraq, Democracy is the Only Answer," Newhouse News Service, September 19,2006
• "Iraq in the Mind of Seymour Hersh," The Daily Targum, November 2, 2005
• "History Suggests an Iraqi Democracy is Possible," The Daily Star, July 1, 2004
• "What Went Wrong in Iraq?," The Bergen Record, October 18, 2004
• "The Bhutto Assassination and U.S. Foreign Policy, The Record, December 31, 2007

Interviews

• "Sectarian Identities in Iraq"
• "Iraq's volatile north still a powder keg as US exits"

Conferences

• "Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq." Paper delivered at the conference on "Re-Thinking the Middle East: Values,Interests and Security Concerns in Western Policy towards Iraq and the Wider Middle East, 1918-2010," The British Academy, March 17-19, 2010.
• "Rethinking the Middle East: Values, Interests and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraq and the Wider region, 1918–2010 Conference Program"
• "Rethinking the Middle East: Values, Interests and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraq and the Wider region, 1918–2010

Lectures

• "John F. Kennedy Library Lecture on Iraq"
• "In Iraq, Democracy is the Only Answer," UCLA Center For Near Eastern Studies, October 25, 2006

Media Appearances

• Jim Lehrer News Hour (Video | Audio | Transcript), December 12, 2006
• Jim Lehrer News Hour (Video | Audio | Transcript),October 30, 2006
• Aljazeera Network (Aljazeera Network (Arabic)

Youth Attitudes in Iraq

• Iraqi National Football Team Defeating Terrorism in Iraq
• Kidnapping...Iraq Anti Terrorist Ad