Diasporic State-Building - Transnational Networks and the Making of Post-2003 Iraq

What role did the Iraqi diaspora play in Iraq's state-building process post-2003, and what has been the legacy of their involvement? Drawing on interviews with a wide range of actors, Oula Kadhum argues that diaspora elites and transnational civil society have been central to the evolution of homeland states under modern processes of globalisation.