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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 1/15/23 On the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam I bought this book to try to learn more about him and his dictatorship. I also wanted to know whether it was a reliable source. On that score, at one point in the narrative, an axe murderer in Baghdad is discussed. I learnt about this case when I was in Baghdad in 1976. I can comment that every statement in the book on which I had independent reliable information was true. I am very confident of the accuracy of the reporting in this book. Saddam City by Mahmoud Saeed, or better yet the original version in Arabic that I heard was going to be released in English again under it's true name and true translation, I Am the One Who Saw, is a much better insight to life under Saddam. Makiya's Republic of Fear is a manufactured "best-seller" for mass production, suspect to embellishment. Makiya seemed to use his prestige as a former asset to the U.S. State Department as leverage to bank off whatever he felt like selling to publishers. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Referencias a esta obra en fuentes externas. Wikipedia en inglés (14)First published in 1989, just before the Gulf War broke out, Republic of Fear was the only book that explained the motives of the Saddam Hussein regime in invading and annexing Kuwait. This edition, updated in 1998, has a substantial introduction focusing on the changes in Hussein's regime since the Gulf War. In 1968 a coup d'état brought into power an extraordinary regime in Iraq, one that stood apart from other regimes in the Middle East. Between 1968 and 1980, this new regime, headed by the Arab Ba'th Socialist party, used ruthless repression and relentless organization to transform the way Iraqis think and react to political questions. In just twelve years, a party of a few thousand people grew to include nearly ten percent of the Iraqi population. This book describes the experience of Ba'thism from 1968 to 1980 and analyzes the kind of political authority it engendered, culminating in the personality cult around Saddam Hussein. Fear, the author argues, is at the heart of Ba'thi politics and has become the cement for a genuine authority, however bizarre. Examining Iraqi history in a search for clues to understanding contemporary political affairs, the author illustrates how the quality of Ba'thi pan-Arabism as an ideology, the centrality of the first experience of pan-Arabism in Iraq, and the interaction between the Ba'th and communist parties in Iraq from 1958 to 1968 were crucial in shaping the current regime. Saddam Hussein's decision to launch all-out war against Iran in September 1980 marks the end of the first phase of this re-shaping of modern Iraqi politics. The Iraq-Iran war is a momentous event in its own right, but for Iraq, the author argues, the war diverts dissent against the Ba'thi regime by focusing attention on the specter of an enemy beyond Iraq's borders, thus masking a hidden potential for even greater violence inside Iraq. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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