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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1405-1435</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Convergencia]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Convergencia]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1405-1435</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Administración]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1405-14352005000200155</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Sobre la Construcción y Deconstrucción de Irak]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Méndez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Norberto Raúl]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Buenos Aires  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Argentina</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>12</volume>
<numero>38</numero>
<fpage>155</fpage>
<lpage>184</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1405-14352005000200155&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1405-14352005000200155&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1405-14352005000200155&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Queremos mostrar que religión y etnicidad tuvieron un rol principal en la construcción de Irak como entidad política y que esta importancia se reaviva en la guerra en curso, constituyendo un buen ejemplo de que la construcción nacional es una tarea permanente, donde la misma se reformula, adapta y cambia, según los tiempos y los sectores dominantes que la determinan. Para ello rastreamos cronológicamente cómo se va desenvolviendo en Irak la utilización de la identidad y la ideología como factores relevantes, haciendo especial hincapié en la situación contemporánea; en la cual se pretende conformar un nuevo molde nacional a la hora de la organización estatal y la legitimidad política de los actores políticos en disputa.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This article pretends to show that religion and ethnicity had and still have a fundamental role in the build ing of Irak as a polity, emphasizing that its importance is being enhanced in the present war, constituting a very good example of the permanent task that national con struction implies, in which the nation is reformulated, adapted and changed according to history and the dominant sectors that determine it. Through a historical tracking of Irak&#8217;s development since its creation in 1920, the different political actors show their struggles to impose their legitimacy.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[construcción]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[nación]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Irak]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[diversidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[religión]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[construction]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[nation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Iraq]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[diversity]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[religion]]></kwd>
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