State of Repression : : Iraq under Saddam Hussein /

State of Repression : : Iraq under Saddam Hussein / / Lisa Blaydes.

A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisionsHow 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 by...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Blaydes, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 8 b/w illus., 20 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and tables
  • Preface
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations
  • 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
  • Part II. Political behavior in Iraq, 1979−2003
  • 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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