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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Main Authors:Blaydes, Lisa, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents
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