@article {Dawisha:April 2008:0026-3141:219,
	author = "Dawisha, Adeed",
	title = "The Unraveling of Iraq: Ethnosectarian preferences and State performance in Historical perspective",
	journal = "The Middle East Journal",
	volume = "62",
	year = "April 2008",
	abstract = "This article argues that the ethnosectarian chaos of today's Iraq is a consequence of state policies and capacity. The same ethnosectarian problems have existed since the birth of the Iraqi state in 1921. However, unlike the post-2003 period where ethnosectarianism has been institutionalized in the body politic, and where the state is unable to project power to subdue sub-state competitors, the pre-2003 period saw the state pursue nationalist policies that denigrated ethnosectarianism and had enough power to impose its will on fissiparous sub-state groups.",
	pages = "219-230(12)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mei/mei/2008/00000062/00000002/art00003"
	doi = "doi:10.3751/62.2.12"
}