Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I - Formulating and Executing the Policy of Cultural Cleansing -- 1. ENDING THE IRAQI STATE by Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael, and Tareq Y. Ismael -- The Ideological Imperatives for a "New" Iraq -- The Neo-Conservative Movement -- Theory to Practice: The Modalities of State-Ending in Iraq -- Death Squads as Foreign Policy Tool -- The Israeli Example: State Destruction in Palestine -- The Question of Oil -- The Israeli Role in Iraq -- Israel in Occupied Iraq -- The Contours of Cultural Destruction -- Destruction of Social Institutions -- Conclusion -- 2. CULTURAL CLEANSING INCOMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE by Glenn E. Perry -- The Cleansing of Civilizations -- The Cleansing of Peoples -- Building and Destroying Nations -- Crimes Against Culture: The Former Yugoslavia -- Crimes Against Culture: Palestine -- Conclusion -- PART II - Policy in Motion: The Assault on Iraq's Incomparable History -- 3. ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE STRATEGIES OF WAR by Zainab Bahrani -- The Assault on Iraqi History and Collective Memory -- The Willful Violence of Cultural Destruction -- 4. THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF IRAQ by Abbas al-Hussainy -- The Destruction -- An Overview of the Iraqi Cultural Heritage -- The Islamic Heritage -- 5. NEGLIGENT MNEMOCIDE AND THE SHATTERING OF IRAQI COLLECTIVE MEMORY by Nabil al-Tikriti -- Invasion Policies -- Baghdad Archives and Manuscript Collections -- Provincial Manuscript Collections -- Relative Human Valuation and the Collapse of Collective Memory -- PART III - Policy in Motion: The Present and the Future -- 6. KILLING THE INTELLECTUAL CLASS: ACADEMICS AS TARGETS by Dirk Adriaensens -- Looting, Arrests and Murder: The Occupation of Iraq Begins -- The Campaign of Assassination -- A Case Study: Baghdad's College of Dentistry -- Violence on Campus.

An Educational System on the Verge of Collapse -- Actions to Protect Iraqi Intellectuals -- The Occupation is Responsible -- Urgent Actions are Needed to Save Iraq's Academics -- 7. WIPING THE SLATE CLEAN by Max Fuller and Dirk Adriaensens -- The Purge of Iraqi Academics -- Emergence of the Purge -- Targeted Assassinations -- Death Threats and Intimidation -- Kidnapping and Detention -- The Authorship of Killings of Iraqi Academics -- Motive and Opportunity -- Case Study 1: Professor Tareq Samarree -- Case Study 2: The Raid on the Ministry of Higher Education -- De-Ba'athifi cation and the Origin of the Purge of Academics -- The Intelligence Apparatus -- The End of History? -- 8. DEATH, DISPLACEMENT, OR FLIGHT by Dahr Jamail -- Brain Drain -- Crime for Wage -- Surge Purge -- Hard Times/Bleak Future -- Permanently Disabled -- 9. THE PURGING OF MINDS by Philip Marfleet -- National Character of Displacement -- "Brain Drain" -- Emergency -- Repression and Refuge -- Persecution -- Assault on the State -- State of Terror -- Salvador Option -- 10. MINORITIES IN IRAQ: THE OTHER VICTIMS by Mokhtar Lamani -- Introduction -- Field Research -- Current Situation of Minorities -- Yezidis -- Mandaeans -- Christians -- Turkmen -- Other Minorities -- Governance Challenges -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- APPENDIX 1: REFLECTIONS ON DEATH ANXIETY AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS IN IRAQ by Faris K.O. Nadhmi -- Death Psychology -- Death Anxiety in Iraq -- Conclusions -- APPENDIX 2: LIST OF MURDERED ACADEMICS -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.