Introduction The Specificity of the Geo-political Region of the Middle East, the Logic of Sykes-Picot and the Making of Iraq The Semi-periphery in the Making of International Law Chapters Outline and the Structure of the Book A Note on Primary Sources 1. Enclosing Mesopotamia: Frontier Governmentality, The Rule of Property and the Origins of Underdevelopment in Hashemite Iraq I. Introduction II. British Tribal Administration and the Invention of Customary Law in Iraq III. The Tribal Criminal & Civil Disputes Regulation (TCCDR): its Origins, Juridical Characteristics and Wide Implications IV. Legal Fragmentation and the Plasticity of Tribal Law V. The Rule of Property, the Destruction of the Tribal Commons & the Origins of Capitalist Relations in Iraq VI. How the ''Rule of Property'' Underdeveloped Iraq: the Necessity of Law in the History of (Semi) Colonialism VII.

Conclusion 2. Manufacturing Iraqi (Semi-peripheral) Sovereignty in Geneva: Dominance through De Jure ''Independence'' I. Introduction III. The ''Wilsonian Moment'' in the Middle East, the legal architecture of the Mandate System & the Geopolitical Significance of the ''A'' Mandates V. The Concept of the ''Semi-periphery'' & its Significance in International Law VII. Manufacturing Iraqi ''Independence'': The 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty and the Doctrine of Semi-peripheral Sovereignty VIII. The Principle of ''Economic Equality'' or the ''Open Door'': the Freedom of Capitalist Accumulation under International Law IX. The Independence of Oil Pipelines: The Constitutive Link between Iraqi Semi-Peripheral Sovereignty and the IPC Oil Concession X.

Conclusion 3. Civilizing Labour Relations in Baghdad: The ILO and The Making of the Iraqi Working Class I. Introduction III. The JAS and the Formative Years of Iraqi Trade Unionism IV. The 1930 Railway Workers'' Strike as a ''School of Struggle'' IV. The 1931 General Strike and the Entry of the Iraqi Working Class into the Political Arena VI. The ILO, the 1936 Labour Law and the Expansion of ''Civilized'' Labour Relations VI. Conclusion 4.

Disrupting the Circuits of Capitalism: The IPC Workers'' Struggle against the Legal Infrastructures of the Oil Frontier of the Middle East I. Introduction III. Urban Migration & the Question of Labour Transition in Post-war Iraq IV. Everyday Life in the IPC Enclave of Kirkuk & the Miserable Conditions of the Iraqi Oil Worker V. The Gawurbaghi Strike and the Effects of the Legal Spatialities of the IPC Enclave VI. The Company Narrative of the Gawurbaghi Strike and its Ideology of Trade Unionism VII. Law and Space in the Mosul Oil Frontier: the Infrastructure of Law in a Desert Space VIII. Pressure Points in the Circuits of Capitalism: How to Use Infrastructure to Subvert Law IX.

Conclusion 5. Forging Independent Labour Unions: The Railway and Port Workers'' Struggles against the Arteries of Imperial Communications and Trade I. Introduction III. The Iraqi State Railways as ImperialArteries of Communications in the Middle East IV. The Legal Structures that Govern the Iraqi State Railways Directorate V. The First ''Experiment'' in Strike Action at the Schalchiyyah Railway Workshops VI. The Port of Basra: The Legal Structures of the Port Directorate and its Extraterritorial Enclave VIII. Seeing like an Expert: Trade Unionism as Subversion & Reform as Counter-Revolution IX.

Conclusion 6. Permanent Emergency and the Criminialization of Dissent as Technologies of Semi-Colonial Governance I. Introduction II. ''Grobba''s Law Against Bolshevik Communists'' and the Criminalization of Dissent in Iraq III. The ''Magical Weapon'' of Emergency Rule as a Technique of Governance A. Tracing the History of the Doctrine of Emergency B. The Advent of Emergency Rule in Iraq C. The 1952 Intifada and Permanent Emergency Rule as Governing Technique D.

The Rule of Semi-Colonial Law: Hussein Jamil and the ''Legal Aporia'' of Emergency IV. Conclusion 7. The Defeat of the Portsmouth Treaty: al-Wathba and its Contribution to the Conjuncture of Decolonization in International Law I. Introduction II. The Limits of the Study of Revolutionary Agency in TWAIL IV. The British Empire''s ''New Clothes of Treaties and Pacts'' V. The Making of the 1948 Portsmouth Treaty and Its Implications VI. The ''Wathba of the People'' Takes Form VIII.

The British View of the Wathba and the ''Logic of the Resisting People'' IX. The Wathba from the Lens of the Labour Movement X. The Wide Implications of the Wathba and its Contribution to the Conjuncture of Decolonization in International Law X. The Role of Labour & Working-Class Agency to the Conjuncture of Decolonization XI. Conclusion Conclusion I. The Lines of Expansion and Contraction of the International Legal Order II. The Juridical Forms of Sovereignty in International Law and their Relations to Capitalism and Imperialism III. Legality as a Question of Strategy and Tactics in Revolutionary Struggles for Decolonization IV.

Conjunctural Analysis and The Writing of History For the Present.