State of repression : Iraq under Saddam Hussein / Lisa Blaydes.
A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisions. How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was doomed b...
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| Other title: | Iraq under Saddam Hussein. |
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Compliance and resistance under autocracy
- State- and nation-building in Iraq, 1973-1979
- War burden and coalitional politics, 1980-1991
- Political implications of economic embargo, 1991-2003
- Collaboration and resistance in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Political orientation and Ba'th Party participation
- Rumors as resistance
- Religion, identity, and contentious politics
- Military service, militias, and coup attempts
- Conclusion.