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Compulsion in religion
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ISBN: 0190843349 0190843314 9780190843328 0190843322 9780190843342 9780190843335 0190843330 9780190843311 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY


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The Ba'thification of Iraq : Saddam Hussein's totalitarianism
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ISBN: 1477305580 1477305572 Year: 2015 Publisher: Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas Press,

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Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq as a dictator for nearly a quarter century before the fall of his regime in 2003. Using the Ba’th party as his organ of meta-control, he built a broad base of support throughout Iraqi state and society. Why did millions participate in his government, parrot his propaganda, and otherwise support his regime when doing so often required betraying their families, communities, and beliefs? Why did the “Husseini Ba’thist” system prove so durable through uprisings, two wars, and United Nations sanctions? Drawing from a wealth of documents discovered at the Ba’th party’s central headquarters in Baghdad following the US-led invasion in 2003, The Ba’thification of Iraq analyzes how Hussein and the party inculcated loyalty in the population. Through a grand strategy of “Ba’thification,” Faust argues that Hussein mixed classic totalitarian means with distinctly Iraqi methods to transform state, social, and cultural institutions into Ba’thist entities, and the public and private choices Iraqis made into tests of their political loyalty. Focusing not only on ways in which Iraqis obeyed, but also how they resisted, and using comparative examples from Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia, The Ba’thification of Iraq explores fundamental questions about the roles that ideology and culture, institutions and administrative practices, and rewards and punishments play in any political system.


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Interpreters of occupation
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ISBN: 081565359X 9780815653592 9780815634553 0815634552 9780815634379 0815634374 Year: 2016 Publisher: Syracuse, New York

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"During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters--translating the 'human terrain' of Iraq--members of this network urgently honed identification strategies amid suspicion from US forces, fellow Iraqis, and, not least of all, one another. In Interpreters of Occupation, Campbell traces the experiences of twelve individuals from their young adulthood as members of the Ba'thist generation, to their work as interpreters, through their navigation of the US immigration pipeline, and finally to their resettlement in the United States. Throughout, Campbell considers how these men and women grappled with issues of belonging and betrayal, both on the battlefield in Iraq and in the US-based diaspora. A nuanced and richly detailed ethnography, Interpreters of Occupation gives voice to a generation of US allies through their diverse and vividly rendered life histories. In the face of what some considered a national betrayal in Iraq and their experiences of otherness within the United States, interpreters negotiate what it means to belong to a diasporic community in flux"--From publisher's website.

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Young adults --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Translators --- Sex role --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Social networks --- Refugees --- Iraqis --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Interpreters --- Linguists --- Translating services --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social psychology --- Social integration --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Ethnology --- Young people --- Young persons --- Adulthood --- Youth --- Refugees. --- Political aspects --- Migrations --- History --- Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq) --- Baath Party (Iraq) --- Arab Baʻth Socialist Party (Iraq) --- ASBP --- A.S.B.P. --- Arabische Sozialistische Baʻth Partei (Iraq) --- Baʻat' (Iraq) --- Mifleget ha-Baʻat' (Iraq) --- Miflagah ha-teḥiyah ha-ʻArvit ha-sotsyalisṭit (Iraq) --- Parti arabe socialiste "Baas" (Iraq) --- Parti Baʾth arabe et socialiste (Iraq) --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles


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Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party
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ISBN: 9780521149150 9780521193016 9781139223478 113922347X 9781139042949 1139042947 9781139220033 1139220039 052119301X 0521149150 1139209051 1107223210 1280568550 1139221760 9786613598158 1139216945 1139213873 9781139209052 9781107223219 9781280568558 9781139221764 6613598151 9781139216944 9781139213875 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers and how the system of rewards functioned.

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