Ba'thist Iraq Through Archives : Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaydes, Lisa.

Series:

Stanford-Hoover Series on Authoritarianism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civics, Iraqi.

Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.

Summary:

The opening of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the inner workings of one of the world's most impenetrable autocracies.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

1. Arrested History: Hierarchized Knowledge Production and Iraq's Baʿth Party Archives

2. The Iraqi Secret Police Documents and the Anfal Campaign: A Personal Account

3. The Iraqi Security Services and the "Dodgy Dossier": The Relevance of Iraqi History and Archives

4. Captured Records and the Lessons of Learning

5. Generating Theory from Iraqi Archives: Insights from Two Challenging Decades

6. Researching Histories of Women and Gender in the Iraqi Baʿth Party Archives

7. The Iraq Archives and the Question of Tribalism in Baʿthist Iraq

8. The Kurdish Question and the Making of Saddam Hussein

9. Claiming Human Rights Violations in Iraq: Kurdish and Iraqi Baʿthist Attempts to Gain International Recognition in the 1990s

10. The Baʿth and the Assyrian Diaspora

11. The Origins of the Archive: New Sources for the Study of Baʿth Party Founder Michel Aflaq in Iraq

12. Resource Mobilization and Regime Survival in Saddam Hussaein's Iraq

13. Using Media Sources to Understand Activism Political Expression in Iraq Under Saddam Hussein

14. Ba'thists in the Arab Gulf States and Iraq-Gulf Relations

15. Chemical Weapons, Coin, and Coercion: Explaining Iraq's Gassings During the Anfal

16. The End of History on the Euphrates: Iraqi Perspectives on the Final Chapter of the Cold War

17. Baghdad, Moscow, and the Soviet Bloc: Insights from the Iraqi Baʿth Party Records

18. Minding the Gaps: Knowns and Unknowns After the 2003 Invasion

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Series Page

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

1-5036-4636-X

OCLC:

1595736049