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The Pomegranate Tree Has Smothered Me: International Law, Imperialism & Labour Struggle In Iraq, 1917-1960, Ali Hammoudi
The Pomegranate Tree Has Smothered Me: International Law, Imperialism & Labour Struggle In Iraq, 1917-1960, Ali Hammoudi
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation delves into the legal and labour history of Hashemite Iraq (c. 1921-1958) to explore the role international law and its institutions played in Iraqs state formation, as well as, the imperial control of the semi-peripheral region of the Middle East. By highlighting the historical specificity of the semi-periphery in international legal history, it shows how Iraq was a laboratory for experimentation with the concept of sovereignty. A unique doctrine of semi-peripheral sovereignty was skillfully developed by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in Geneva and embedded in the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty to ensure Iraqs independence …