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List of contents
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Key Events
Introduction
The Ottoman and Mandate Roots of the Parliamentary System
The Advent of the Parliamentary System in the Ottoman Empire
1908–18:An Imperial Parliamentary System
Inventing New States (1920–46)
Experimenting with the Parliamentary System,
1946–49
Za‘ama and the Parliamentary System
Establishing Real Sovereignty
The 1947 Elections
1948: Calling into Question the Parliamentary Experiment
Reform and Change: The Parliamentary System in Iraq and Syria, 1949–54
Rearranging the Parliamentary Systems
The Impact of International Relationships
Reforming the Country
Putting theAuthoritarian Pact in Jeopardy
Two New Formulas for the ParliamentarySystem, 1954–58
The Heydays of the Parliaments
Legislative Enterprises: Reshaping Society and the Economy
Adopting Cold War Vocabulary and the Polarization of the Assemblies
The Epilogue to the Parliamentary System
Establishing a True Constitutional Order?
The End of the Parliamentary System
The End of the Post-Ottoman Era
Appendices
1: Thematic Discussions in the January 1955 Session
2: Parliamentary Activity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Matthieu Rey is director of contemporary studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), Beirut, and a CNRS researcher specializing in contemporary Middle Eastern history, with a special focus on Syria’s and Iraq’s political systems. He is also an associate researcher at the Collège de France and the Wits History Workshop. He obtained his PhD from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHSS), Collège de France in 2013. His research interests include state-building and policymaking in the contemporary Middle East and Southern Africa. He is the author of Histoire de la Syrie XIX–XXIe siècle (A History of Syria, 19th–21st centuries, 2018).
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