Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq University of California Press http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9856.html Introduction Chapter 4: Memory, the Intelligentsia, and the Antinomies of Civil Society, 1945-1958 Chapter 5: The Crucible: The July 14, 1958 Revolution and the Struggle Over Historical Memory Chapter 10: Conclusion

Recent Publications & Lectures: Executive Summary: Rebuilding a Non-Sectarian Iraq (PDF) Rebuilding a Non-Sectarian Iraq (PDF) John F. Kennedy Library lecture on Iraq Many Kurds Support Iraq, Not Independence, The Star Ledger, December 16, 2007 (PDF) The Bhutto Assassination and U.S. Foreign Policy, The Record, December 31, 2007 (PDF) Eric Davis comments on Iraq's new Provincial Powers Law, PBS Online, March 21, 2008 Religion and Politics in Post-Ba'thist Iraq, Spring 2008 Newsletter, The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) (PDF) Reflections on Religion and Politics in Post-Ba'thist Iraq (PDF) The Puzzle of Federalism in Iraq (PDF) Go, Stay or Rebuild?: The Next President, the Next Stage in Iraq, The Star Ledger, June 29, 2008 (PDF) Articles: Iraqi Politics & Society The Formation of Political Identities in Ethnically Divided Societies: Implications for a Democratic Transition in Iraq - English | Arabic (PDF) USIP Special Report: Strategies for Promoting Democracy in Iraq Iraq in the Mind of Seymour Hersh, The Daily Targum, November 2, 2005 (PDF) The New Iraq: The Uses of Historical Memory, Journal of Democracy, July 2005 (PDF) National Assembly Elections: Prelude to Democracy or Instability?, Middle East Policy, Spring 2005 (PDF) History Matters: Past as Prologue in Building Democracy in Iraq, Orbis, Spring 2005 (PDF) Iraq's Sunni Clergy Enter the Fray, Religion in the News, Winter 2005 (PDF) Baghdad's Buried Treasure, The New York Times, April 16, 2003 (PDF) Democracy's Prospects in Iraq, Foreign Policy Research Institute, June 30, 2004 (PDF) History Suggests an Iraqi Democracy is Possible, The Daily Star (Beirut), July 1, 2004 Domino Democracy: Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Middle East, Patriotism and Common Sense. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 (PDF) What Went Wrong in Iraq?, The Bergen Record, October 18, 2004 (PDF) Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq, Foreign Policy Research Institute, March 27, 2003 (PDF) The Iraqi Revolution of 1958, Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (PDF) 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. The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq, Commemorations: The Politics of Memory and Identity. Princeton University Press, 1994. (PDF) State Building in Iraq During the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf Crisis, Internationalization of Communal Strife (PDF) Sectarian Identities in Iraq - Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) Sectarian Identity in Iraq - Interview with Dr. Eric Davis (PDF) Iraq: Economic Reconstruction Project In Iraq, Democracy is the Only Answer, Newhouse News Service, September 19,2006 (PDF) Jim Lehrer News Hour - October 30, 2006: Video (MPEG, 109 MB) · Audio (MP3, 4 MB) · Transcript (PDF) Jim Lehrer News Hour - December 12, 2006: Video (MPEG, 330 MB) · Audio (MP3, 8 MB) · Transcript (PDF) Politics in Post-Ba'thist Iraq In Iraq, Democracy is the Only Answer, UCLA Center For Near Eastern Studies, October 25, 2006 Articles: Religion & Politics Ideology Social Class and Islamic Radicalism, From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam (PDF) The Concept of Revival and the Study of Islam in Politics, The Islamic Impulse (PDF) Religion Against The State, Religious Resurgence: Contemporary Cases in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism (PDF) The Politics of Oil: The Political Economy of the Arab Oil-Producing Nations: Convergence With Western Interests, Studies in Comparative International Development, Summer 1979. Introduction, Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory, and Popular Culture (PDF) Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory, and Popular Culture in Iraq and Kuwait (Chapter 5), Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory, and Popular Culture (PDF) Article: America's Encounter with the Middle East: Representations of the Middle East at American World Fairs 1876-1904, The United States & the Middle East: Cultural Encounters (PDF) Links: Eric Davis on social and political developments in modern Iraq, Center for Middle Eastern Studies e-magazine, Harvard University, June 2006 Eric Davis comments of the death of Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, The Jim Lehrer News Hour, June 8, 2006 Historical Memory and the Building of Democracy in Iraq, lecture delivered at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York, February 17, 2004 "Building the New Iraq" Curriculum Module, Global Citizen 2000 Curriculum Development and Dissemination Project, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University Course Syllabi: 790:451 Spring 2004 - Critical Perspectives on the Middle East (PDF) 790:503 Fall 2005 - Proseminar in Comparative Analysis (PDF) 790:540 Spring 2006 - Theories of Democratic Transitions (PDF) 790/685:317 Fall 2006 - Globalization and the Non-Western World (PDF) 790:503 Fall 2006 - Proseminar in Comparative Analysis (PDF) Center for Middle Eastern Studies