Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime
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Joseph Sassoon (Author)
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The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers and how the system of rewards functioned. 6 Tables, unspecified; 1 Maps; 10 Halftones, unspecified; 6 Line drawings, unspecified
About the Author
Joseph Sassoon is Adjunct Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arabic Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous books including Economic Policy in Iraq, 1932-1950 (1987) and The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East (2009).
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- Contributor: Joseph Sassoon
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9780521193016
- Number of Pages: 336
- Packaged Dimensions: 157x235x22mm
- Packaged Weight: 560
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2011-12-12
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Joseph Sassoon is Adjunct Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arabic Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous books including Economic Policy in Iraq, 1932-1950 (1987) and The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East (2009).
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