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Book SynopsisChapter 1 A State in the Making: Persistent Impediments to State Cohesion in Iraq.- Chapter 2 British Parliamentary Opinion and the Future of Iraq: Regional Security and the Question of Southern Kurdistan, c. 1919-1923.- Chapter 3 Wilson in Versailles and the Kurdish Question.- Chapter 4 International Law and the British Mandate: the debate about self-determination in the Middle East after 1919.- Chapter 5 The (Un) Making of a National Hero: The Legacy of Salah ad-Din al Ayyub in Iraq and Kurdistan.- Chapter 6 Iraqi Women and State Re-Construction: A progressive Wave towards Gender Equality or an Ebbing Wave towards Gender Inequality?.- Chapter 7 The Moral and Philosophical Dimensions of Ba'athist policy toward the Kurds.- Chapter 8 Problems of non-implementation in the case of the Iraqi Constitution.- Chapter 9 The Jigsaw Puzzle of Financial Independence for the Kurdistan Region in A Federal Iraq.- Chapter 10 Security, Legitimacy and State Building in Contemporary Iraq: The Role of Regional and International Intervention.- Chapter 11 Fixing Federalism in Iraq.- Chapter 12: Opinion: Towards the Civil State? The Necessity of Constitutional Reform.- Chapter 13 Afterword: Long-term perspectives, peregrinations and prospects.