Iraq against the world : Saddam, America, and the post-Cold War order / Samuel Helfont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helfont, Samuel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and China pose a rapidly escalating and confounding threat for the liberal international order. In Iraq against the World, Samuel Helfont offers a new narrative of Iraqi foreign policy after the 1991 Gulf War to argue that Saddam Hussein executed a political warfare campaign that facilitated this disturbance to global norms. Drawing on internal files from the ruling Ba'th Party, Helfont highlights previously unknown Iraqi foreign policy strategies, including the prominent use of influence operations and manipulative statesmanship.

Contents:

Cover

Iraq against the World

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Iraq and the World

1. Precursors

2. The Gulf Crisis and the New World Order

3. Triumph and Despair After the Gulf War

4. Building Networks in the West, 1991-​2

5. Toward Influencing Policy in non-​Western World, 1991-​2

6. Courting Clinton

7. A Turning Point for the New World Order

8. Breaking Isolation

9. Normalization, 9/​11, and the Road to War

Conclusion and Afterword: Saddam's Iraq and Twenty-First Century Disorder

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Helfont, Samuel Iraq Against the World

ISBN:

0-19-753018-4

0-19-753016-8

0-19-753017-6

OCLC:

1373986636