Abstract

The Coalition Provisional Authority and its administrator, L.Paul Bremer, governed Iraq from May 2003 until June of the following year. During these fourteen months the CPA restored Iraq’s essential public services to near or beyond their prewar levels, instituted reforms in the Iraqi judiciary and penal sytems, drastically reduced inflation and boosted economic growth, began reform the civil service and promoted the most liberal constitution in the Middle East, but failed to prevent the countries decent into bloody civil war. How is this experianc to be evaluated, and what lessons may be drawn for future efforts at post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction.

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