Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime

Author:   Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date:   05 June 2012
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Author:   Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN:  

9781139042949


ISBN 10:   1139042947
Publication Date:   05 June 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
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Sassoon has immersed himself in the documents and tapes of a regime that was meticulous in the recording of its savagery, and his scholarship imparts the original smell of fear as it elucidates. In the fast-diminishing roster of regional despots, Saddam and his personality cult came closest to being an Arab Stalin. Yet Sassoon brings out superbly that this was a system that was not totalitarian, but a balance of extreme violence and extravagant reward, a demonic machine to keep people down rather than determine what they believed. A chilling account of the inner workings of arguably the worst of the Arab security states. - David Gardner, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times, and author of The Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance (2009). An absolute must-read for anyone interested in the structure of modern Arab authoritarian political systems. This is the first inside look at Saddam Hussein's bureaucratic style of rule by rewards and punishments based on original party documents. Fair and judicious, it does much to revise the simple-minded view of the system as a totalitarian monstrosity based on Sunni domination of the Iraqi Shi'is. - Roger Owen, Harvard University An outstanding book. Sassoon takes Western readers inside the Iraqi Ba'th Party as no author has done before. Drawing on hundreds of thousands of Arabic documents and hours of recordings of Saddam's governing council at work, this book provides an unparalleled case study of authoritarian politics in the Arab world. Engagingly written and remarkably balanced, Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party is a chilling reminder of the type of regime being overthrown in the Arab Spring. - Eugene Rogan, The Middle East Centre, University of Oxford


'Sassoon's writing is calm and deliberate.' Times Literary Supplement 'In Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime, Joseph Sassoon has worked his way through the meticulous records in the archives to put together what is a fascinating portrait of the regime, explaining how the Ba'th Party was organized, its relationship with the army, the security organizations, the personality cult around Saddam, and how the regime extended its control over all aspects of life in Iraq.' Emma Sky, International Affairs 'In this well-written and extensively researched volume, Joseph Sassoon ... provides critical insights into the functioning of the Ba'thist party and regime. Deftly analyzing the party's internal structure, intelligence organizations, and relationship with the military, as well as Saddam's personality cult, patterns of control and resistance, and bureaucracy and civil life under the Ba'th, [he] weaves a fascinating narrative of social control and repression.' Eric Davis, Perspectives on Politics


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Joseph Sassoon is Adjunct Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arabic Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous books including Economic Policy in Iraq, 1932–1950 (1987) and The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East (2009).

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