Johan Franzén
Biographic Data
| ID | 1711838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan Franzén |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Franzén |
| SIGNATURE | FRANZÉN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4085-7159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
S ara P ursley . Familiar Futures
Sara Pursley’s Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Iraqi history. It is ambitious in scope and covers a range of hitherto underresearched topics, such as development, education, and sexual differentiation in the period from the creation of the state in 1920 until shortly after the 1958 revolution. The author offers a stimulating discussion of these topics that shows command …
America’s Forgotten Middle East Initiative
‘The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development ...’ (Point XII of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 8 Jan. 1918). This ‘autonomous development’, or ‘self-determination’, quickly became the cornerstone of American post-war foreign …
A Response to Tareq Ismael's Review of Red Star Over Iraq
It was with great expectation that I awaited IJMES ' review of my book on the Iraqi communist movement, Red Star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), published in the November 2012 issue. However, any hope of a balanced assessment of my work—the result of many years of painstaking research—disappeared as soon as I began reading Professor Tareq Ismael's review. Ismael, who is the author of the only …
Rami Ginat. A History of Egyptian Communism
Journal Article Rami Ginat. A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution. Get access Rami Ginat. A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution.Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner. 2011. Pp. x, 431. $69.95. Johan Franzén Johan Franzén University of East Anglia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Revi…
The problem of Iraqi nationalism
This article analyses the development of a tenuous Iraqi national identity since the creation of the Iraqi state in 1920. Informed by the ideas of Anthony D. Smith, Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm, it argues that various political actors in Iraq have sought to reshape historical memory and thus forge a national identity. Despite many setbacks and a long series of authoritarian regimes seeking to appropriate Iraqiness for their own political p…
From Ally to Foe
In the modern history of Iraq, the period from the 1958 Revolution until the Ba‘th Party's consolidation of power by the mid-1970s stands out as an exceptionally eventful era. Not only did it witness a revolution that overthrew the British-installed monarchy, it also saw the revolutionary regime's own downfall a few years later in a bloody coup. That putsch was later followed by many similar military interventions. In addition, the epoch witnesse…
Red star over Iraq
Development vs. Reform
This study analyses British and local Iraqi elites’ efforts to avoid social revolution through promotion of economic development during the last years of the Iraqi monarchy. Discussing the complex set-up of domestic Iraqi elites and their ambiguous relations with British officials in Iraq, it argues that the structural composition of the Iraqi state itself is an important explanatory factor for the swift overthrow of the old regime in 1958. Using…
Losing hearts and minds in Iraq
This article analyses British policy towards Iraq during the period following the Second World War until the 1958 Iraqi revolution. Using British archival sources it demonstrates how Britain covertly tried to stem the rise of communist and nationalist anti-imperialist sentiments in Iraq through an insistence on employing ill-fitting anti-communist propaganda designed as a Cold War weapon with which to counter Soviet influence. Failing to apprecia…
Development vs. Reform
This study analyses British and local Iraqi elites’ efforts to avoid social revolution through promotion of economic development during the last years of the Iraqi monarchy. Discussing the complex set-up of domestic Iraqi elites and their ambiguous relations with British officials in Iraq, it argues that the structural composition of the Iraqi state itself is an important explanatory factor for the swift overthrow of the old regime in 1958. Using…
From Ally to Foe
In the modern history of Iraq, the period from the 1958 Revolution until the Ba‘th Party's consolidation of power by the mid-1970s stands out as an exceptionally eventful era. Not only did it witness a revolution that overthrew the British-installed monarchy, it also saw the revolutionary regime's own downfall a few years later in a bloody coup. That putsch was later followed by many similar military interventions. In addition, the epoch witnesse…
Development vs. Reform
This study analyses British and local Iraqi elites’ efforts to avoid social revolution through promotion of economic development during the last years of the Iraqi monarchy. Discussing the complex set-up of domestic Iraqi elites and their ambiguous relations with British officials in Iraq, it argues that the structural composition of the Iraqi state itself is an important explanatory factor for the swift overthrow of the old regime in 1958. Using…
Losing hearts and minds in Iraq
This article analyses British policy towards Iraq during the period following the Second World War until the 1958 Iraqi revolution. Using British archival sources it demonstrates how Britain covertly tried to stem the rise of communist and nationalist anti-imperialist sentiments in Iraq through an insistence on employing ill-fitting anti-communist propaganda designed as a Cold War weapon with which to counter Soviet influence. Failing to apprecia…
The problem of Iraqi nationalism
This article analyses the development of a tenuous Iraqi national identity since the creation of the Iraqi state in 1920. Informed by the ideas of Anthony D. Smith, Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm, it argues that various political actors in Iraq have sought to reshape historical memory and thus forge a national identity. Despite many setbacks and a long series of authoritarian regimes seeking to appropriate Iraqiness for their own political p…
From Ally to Foe
In the modern history of Iraq, the period from the 1958 Revolution until the Ba‘th Party's consolidation of power by the mid-1970s stands out as an exceptionally eventful era. Not only did it witness a revolution that overthrew the British-installed monarchy, it also saw the revolutionary regime's own downfall a few years later in a bloody coup. That putsch was later followed by many similar military interventions. In addition, the epoch witnesse…
Red star over Iraq
Rami Ginat. A History of Egyptian Communism
Journal Article Rami Ginat. A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution. Get access Rami Ginat. A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution.Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner. 2011. Pp. x, 431. $69.95. Johan Franzén Johan Franzén University of East Anglia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Revi…
A Response to Tareq Ismael's Review of Red Star Over Iraq
It was with great expectation that I awaited IJMES ' review of my book on the Iraqi communist movement, Red Star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), published in the November 2012 issue. However, any hope of a balanced assessment of my work—the result of many years of painstaking research—disappeared as soon as I began reading Professor Tareq Ismael's review. Ismael, who is the author of the only …
America’s Forgotten Middle East Initiative
‘The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development ...’ (Point XII of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 8 Jan. 1918). This ‘autonomous development’, or ‘self-determination’, quickly became the cornerstone of American post-war foreign …
S ara P ursley . Familiar Futures
Sara Pursley’s Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Iraqi history. It is ambitious in scope and covers a range of hitherto underresearched topics, such as development, education, and sexual differentiation in the period from the creation of the state in 1920 until shortly after the 1958 revolution. The author offers a stimulating discussion of these topics that shows command …
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