Assignment:
Response paper: Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Introduction to the reading:
You are to read Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The book is about the early post-invasion period of the American occupation of Iraq, 2003-2004. It focuses on the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) led by L. Paul Bremer. Chandrasekaran was the Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post at the time.
Assignment:
Create a 3-4 page response paper on Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Address the following questions, and use SPECIFIC examples from the book to support your answers:
• How did American politics affect the CPA's performance in the first year of the American occupation?
• How did the CPA's economic decisions have political consequences, and how did these affect outcomes on the ground in Baghdad?
• How did the whole administrative set-up of the CPA and the Green Zone affect relationships between Americans and Iraqis?
Format
1. FONT: All papers are to be double-spaced, typed, black 12 font.