États, communautés et marges dissidentes en Irak
Hamit Bozarslan
In order to address the issue of the State and of communitarianization in Iraq in the long term, we must reexamine the past. In this respect, we must abandon simplified causal explanations, and attempt to
understand Iraqi history through a series of contradictions and paradoxes.
This approach then allows us to consider the current fragmentation of Iraqi
society, which is both a cause and a consequence of the impossibility of
rebuilding the state. Finally, starting from the notion of fringes of society, we
suggest that behind the banal aspect of day-to-day events, and behind the
multifarious phenomenon of violence, new configurations are being shaped,
and their implications may be far broader than the Iraqi context itself.
• Retour sur le passé ou les processus contradictoires de l’histoire irakienne
• L’épuisement des formules de construction étatique
• La paradoxale centralité des marges