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The Legacy of Iraq critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in peace and prosperity. It argues that mistakes made by the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set a sequence of events in motion that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, the Middle East and for the rest of the world. Today, as the nation faces perhaps its greatest challenge in the wake of the devastating advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and another US-led coalition undertakes renewed military action in Iraq, understanding the complex and difficult legacies of the 2003 war could not be more urgent. Ignoring the legacies of the Iraq war and denying their connection to contemporary events couldmeans that vital lessonsare ignored and the same mistakes made again.

Former Deputy Secretary of State P.J. Crowley unpacks the legacy of American triumphs and failures in Iraq . He argues that presidents has fallen victim to the Iraq Syndrome-the disconnect between politics, policy, strategy, and narrative-that has hampered America's foreign policy in the Middle East and hotspots throughout the world. In order to maintain America's global leadership role, Crowley argues that the next president must realign American's national security politics, policies, strategies, and narrative for the long term.--Publisher description.

Regardless of its outcome, the Iraq War has had a transformative effect on the Middle East. To equip U.S. policymakers to better manage the war's long-term consequences, the authors analyzed its effects on the regional balance of power, local perceptions of U.S. credibility, the domestic stability of neighboring states, and trends in terrorism after conducting extensive interviews in the region and drawing from an array of local media sources.

As U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq, significant changes can be expected throughout al-Anbar Province in security, political, economic, and even cultural relationships. RAND convened a series of three one-day workshops at which participants identified five relatively distinct futures, or scenarios, for al-Anbar that provide plausible but alternative trajectories for the province between early 2009 and the end of 2011.

In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, Anderson examines the myriad complex causes of the region's profound unraveling, tracing the ideological conflicts of the present to their origins in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and beyond. From this investigation emerges a rare view into a land in upheaval through the eyes of six individuals--the matriarch of a dissident Egyptian family; a Libyan Air Force cadet with divided loyalties; a Kurdish physician from a prominent warrior clan; a Syrian university student caught in civil war; an Iraqi activist for women's rights; and an Iraqi day laborer-turned-ISIS fighter. A probing and insightful work of reportage, Fractured Lands offers a penetrating portrait of the contemporary Arab world and brings the stunning realities of an unprecedented geopolitical tragedy into crystalline focus.

An extraordinary collection of essays by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars on the concluded Iraq War, The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and strong support. In this intellectually captivating book, Professor Irwin Abrams, considered the leading authority world-wide on the history of the Nobel Peace Prize and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Antioch University, and Professor Wang Gungwu, renowned historian and Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, have collected works of notable laureates and scholars from diverse backgrounds. The Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars, together, expound on the consequences and impacts of the Iraq War - an effort that has not been made before. In conclusion, there are two sermons by Gunnar Stålsett, Bishop of Oslo. The Prominent Contributors are: Nobel Peace Laureates Tenzin Gyatso (The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, 1989) David Trimble (MP, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, UK, 1998) Jody Williams (International Ambassador of International Campaign to Ban Landmines, USA, 1997) Sir Joseph Rotblat (Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, UK, 1995) Jose Ramos-Horta (Foreign Minister of East Timor, 1996) Frederik Willem de Klerk (Former President of South Africa, 1993) Mairead Corrigan Maguire (Co-founder, Community of Peace People, Northern Ireland, UK, 1976) Bernard Lown (Co-founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1985) Peter Hansen (Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UN, 1945) Irene Khan (Sec-General, Amnesty International, 1977) Mary Ellen McNish (Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee, USA, 1947) Brian Philips of Oxford Brookes University (Quaker Peace and Social Witness, UK, 1947) Cora Weiss, President (Permanent International Peace Bureau, 1910) Christian Dominice (Sec-General, Institute of International Law, 1904) Eminent Scholars Noam Chomsky (Prominent Political Critic, Professor of Linguistics, MIT) Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel laureate in Economics 2001, Columbia University) Richard A Falk (Albert G Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University) Sir John Daniel (UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education) John W Dower (Pulitzer Prize winner & Elting E. Morison Professor of History, MIT) Eric Stover (Director of Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley) Frank N von Hippel (Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University) Lord Colin Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (Director of McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University) William Hartung (Director of Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy Institute) Benjamin R Foster (Professor of Assyriology and Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection, Yale University) Svetlana Broz (Sarajevo Cardiologist, Author and Lecturer) Faleh A Jabar (Iraq specialist and Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, London University) Lisa Martin (Professor of Government, Harvard University) Helena Cobban (Middle-East Specialist and Columnist for Christian Science Monitor) Mahmood Mamdani (Director of Institute of African Studies, Columbia University) Rosemary Foot (Professor of International Relations, Modern History, Oxford University) Robin Lakoff (Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley) Roland Paris (Political Science and International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder)