Iraq's Shi'a Warriors
From Battlefield to Parliament
Seiten
2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-9306-3 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-9306-3 (ISBN)
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This book explores how Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units have evolved from battlefield actors into powerful political and social stakeholders, crafting legitimacy across Iraq’s political, religious, and civic spheres. It challenges the proxy warfare narrative, offering a nuanced analysis of their complex, locally rooted identity and domestic ambitions. -- .
By examining the PMU’s self-positioning as a pillar of Iraq’s defence infrastructure, this book offers a critical perspective on the prospects for Security Sector Reform (SSR) and highlights the limitations of externally driven Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) efforts. It speaks to scholars of Iraq and the Middle East, as well as diplomats, security actors, and SSR practitioners. The book is also a valuable teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on conflict, security, identity politics, terrorism, and peacebuilding. Its unique fieldwork methodology offers guidance for researchers engaging with armed non-state and para-state actors in post-conflict settings. Altogether, the book addresses a strong academic and policy demand for evidence-based analysis of the PMU’s complex identity - offering a flexible framework for studying hybrid security actors with transnational connections and domestic ambitions. -- .
By examining the PMU’s self-positioning as a pillar of Iraq’s defence infrastructure, this book offers a critical perspective on the prospects for Security Sector Reform (SSR) and highlights the limitations of externally driven Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) efforts. It speaks to scholars of Iraq and the Middle East, as well as diplomats, security actors, and SSR practitioners. The book is also a valuable teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on conflict, security, identity politics, terrorism, and peacebuilding. Its unique fieldwork methodology offers guidance for researchers engaging with armed non-state and para-state actors in post-conflict settings. Altogether, the book addresses a strong academic and policy demand for evidence-based analysis of the PMU’s complex identity - offering a flexible framework for studying hybrid security actors with transnational connections and domestic ambitions. -- .
Inna Rudolf is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London -- .
Introduction
1: The pioneers of the mobilisation’s vanguard
2: The institutionalisation of the PMU
Part I: The Political Field
3: The protector of the state (al-H?a¯ris)
4: The entrepreneur (al-Muba¯dir)
Part II: The religious field
5: The holy warrior (al-Muqaddas)
6: The resistance force (al-Muqa¯wim)
Part III: The civic field
7: The ‘inclusive’ guard (al-Sha¯mil)
8: The service provider (al-Kha¯dim)
Conclusion -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East |
| Zusatzinfo | 18 black and white images |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-9306-X / 152619306X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-9306-3 / 9781526193063 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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