Vesselin Petkov

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Publications

Hoffman, Bruce. "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 29, no. 2 (2006): 103-121.

Bremer, Paul L.. Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 1: De-Ba’athification of Iraqi Society. Coalition Provisional Authority, 2003.

Bremer, Paul L.. Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2: Dissolution of Entities. Baghdad, 2003.

Pirnie, Bruce R., and Edward O’Connel. Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003–2006). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 2008.

Weiss, Michael, and Hassan Hassan. ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Sly, Liz. "The hidden hand behind the Islamic State militants? Saddam Hussein’s." Washington Post (2015).

Mastracci, Davide. How the catastrophic American decision to disband Saddam’s military helped fuel the rise of ISIL. National Post, 2015.

W. Terrill, Andrew. Lessons of the Iraqi De-Ba'athification Program for Iraq’s Future and the Arab Revolutions. Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2012.

Burton, Brian, and John Nagl. "Learning as we go: the US army adapts to counterinsurgency in Iraq, July 2004–December 2006." Small Wars & Insurgencies 19, no. 3 (2008): 303-27.

Nagl, John A.. The US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Quinlivan, James T.. "Burden of Victory: The Painful Arithmetic of Stability Operations." Rand Review 27, no. 2 (2003): 28-29.

Kilcullen, David. "Don’t Confuse the ‘Surge’ with the Strategy." Small Wars Journal (2007).

Kagan, Kimberly. Iraq Report. Washington, D.C.: The Institute for the Study of War, 2007.

Odierno, Raymond T.. The Surge in Iraq: One Year Later In Lecture #1068 on National Security and Defense. Heritage Foundation, 2008.

McCoy, Terrence. "Camp Bucca: The US prison that became the birthplace of Isis." Independent (2014).

Barrett, Richard. The Islamic State In The Soufan Group Report., 2014.

Na, sr, Vali. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. New York: W.W.: Norton & Company, 2007.

Haji-Yousefi, Amir M.. "Whose Agenda Is Served by the Idea of a Shia Crescent?" Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 8, no. 1 (2009): 114-35.

Shaaban, Bouthaina. The Rise of ISIS and Other Extremist Groups: the role of the West and Regional Powers. The Canadian Charger, 2016.

Moubayed, Sami. Under the Black Flag: At the Frontier of the New Jihad. I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Workman, Thom. The Social Origins of the Iran-Iraq War In CISS Working Paper. Downsview, Ontario: York University, Centre for International and Strategic Studies, 1991.

Levitt, Matthew. Terrorist Financing and the Islamic State In Testimony submitted to the House Committee on Financial Services. Washington Institute, 2014.

Cederman, Lars-Erik, Andreas Wimmer, and Brian Min. "Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis." World Politics 62, no. 1 (2010): 87-119.

Brown, Michael E.. Ethnic Conflict and International Security. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Kilcullen, David. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. New York:: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Vesselin Petkov

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