Dancing With Saddam

Author : David Kenneth Schenker
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739106495
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Saddam written by David Kenneth Schenker and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan has long served as a pivot between moderate pro-Western states and radical anti-American states in the Middle East. This volume explores the international relations between the West, Middle East and Jordan.

Author : Hadani Ditmars
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the No-fly Zone written by Hadani Ditmars and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ditmars first went to Iraq in 1997 for the "New York Times," she saw beauty, architecture, and music in the midst of despair. Ditmars traveled to Iraq again and again, reporting on every aspect of life. Featuring tales of her visits, this book captures the full humanity of a people who have suffered much yet have maintained a spirit of resilience. Photos.

Author : Samuel Helfont
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019753015X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iraq Against the World written by Samuel Helfont and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and China pose a rapidly escalating and confounding threat for the liberal international order. In Iraq against the World, Samuel Helfont offers a new narrative of Iraqi foreign policy after the 1991 Gulf War to argue that Saddam Hussein executed a political warfare campaign that facilitated this disturbance to global norms. Following the Gulf War, the UN imposed sanctions and inspections on the Iraqi state--conditions that Saddam Hussein was in no position to challenge militarily or through traditional diplomacy. Hussein did, however, wage an influence campaign designed to break the unity of the UN Security Council. The Iraqis helped to impede emerging norms of international cooperation and prodded potentially revisionist states to act on latent inclinations to undermine a liberal post-Cold War order. Drawing on internal files from the ruling Ba'th Party, Helfont highlights previously unknown Iraqi foreign policy strategies, including the prominent use of influence operations and manipulative statesmanship. He traces Ba'thist operations around the globe--from the streets of New York and Stockholm, to the mosques of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, to the halls of power in Paris and Moscow. Iraqi Ba'thists carried out espionage, planted stories in the foreign press, established overt and covert relations with various political parties, and attempted to silence anyone who disrupted their preferred political narrative. They presented themselves simply as Iraqis concerned about the suffering of their friends and families in their home country, and, consequently, were able to assemble a loose political coalition that was unknowingly being employed to meet Iraq's strategic goals. This, in turn, divided Western states and weakened norms of cooperation and consensus toward rules-based solutions to international disputes, causing significant damage to liberal internationalism and the institutions that were supposed to underpin it. A powerful reconsideration of the history of Iraqi foreign policy in the 1990s and the early 2000s, Iraq against the World offers new insights into the evolution of the post-Cold War order.

Author : Scott Lasensky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jordan and Iraq written by Scott Lasensky and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henri J. Barkey
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 1601270771
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States written by Henri J. Barkey and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] examines how Iraq's evolving political order affects its complex relationships with its neighbors and the United States. The book depicts a region unbalanced, shaped by new and old tensions, struggling with a classic collective action dilemma, and anxious about Iraq's political future, as well as America's role in the region, all of which suggest trouble ahead absent concerted efforts to promote regional cooperation. In the volume's case studies ... [scholars] review Iraq's bilateral relationships with Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Arab states, Syria, and Jordan and explore how Iraq's neighbors could advance the country's transition to security and stability. The volume also looks at the United States' relations with and long-term strategic interests in Iraq and offers recommendations for how the United States can help Iraq strengthen and grow"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Will Blesch
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545751218
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Iraq Today written by Will Blesch and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Iraq Today is an accurate and contemporary presentation that explores the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq with a focus on the country as it is today: current issues, culture, and lifestyle. The book is written in an easy-to-read enjoyable narrative form for elementary readers grades 3-6. The Iraq title includes a native recipe and craft for students to create. Elementary students are encouraged to consider evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Series titles have been developed to address many of the Common Core specific goals, higher level thinking skills, and progressive learning strategies for middle grade level students.

Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472910478
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tail Wags the Dog written by Efraim Karsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing crisis in Syria has raised a question mark over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics. To western intellectuals, foreign policy experts and politicians, 'empire' and 'imperialism' are categories that apply exclusively to the European powers and more recently to the United States of America. Lacking an internal dynamic of its own, the view of such people is that Middle Eastern history is the product of its unhappy interaction with the West. This is the basis of Obama`s much ballyhooed `new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world`. Efraim Karsh propounds in these pages a radically different interpretation of Middle Eastern experience. He argues that the Western view of Muslims and Arabs as hapless victims is absurd. On the contrary modern Middle Eastern history has been the culmination of long existing indigenous trends, passions and patterns of behaviour. Great power influences, however potent, have played a secondary role constituting neither the primary force behind the region`s political development nor the main cause of its notorious volatility. Notwithstanding the Obama administration's abysmal failure to address the momentous Middle Eastern events of recent years, Karsh argues it is only when Middle Eastern people disown their victimization mentality and take responsibility for their actions and their western champions drop their condescending approach to Arabs and Muslims, that the region can at long last look forward to a real `spring`.

Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802139788
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saddam Hussein written by Efraim Karsh and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, experts on Middle East history and politics, have combined their expertise to write what is largely considered the definitive work of one of the world's most reviled and notorious figures. Drawing on a wealth of Iraqi, Arab, Western and Israeli sources, including interviews with people who have had close contact with Saddam Hussein throughout his career, the authors trace the meteoric transformation of an ardent nationalist and obscure Ba'th party member into an absolute dictator. Skillfully interweaving a realistic analysis of Gulf politics and history, and now including a new introduction and epilogue, this authoritative biography is essential for understanding the mind of a modern tyrant.

Author : Hussein Hussein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781624910920
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euphrates Dance written by Hussein Hussein and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euphrates Dance is a story that reveals the fear which seizes a young Iraqi man as he is taught the frailty of life under an oppressive religious cult. As the society around him descends into an underworld where humanity is stunted and where life is stripped of the basic freedoms of thought and belief, life is always fleeting. Hussein's is a magnificent story of the universal struggle for light in the shadow of dominant horror and tragedy.

Author : Ruben Bolling
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740747373
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thrilling Tom the Dancing Bug Stories written by Ruben Bolling and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist Ruben Bolling's oddball strip, Tom the Dancing Bug, makes waves on a weekly basis. Recognized the past two years by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) as Best Cartoon, Tom the Dancing Bug is consistently funny, pointed without being dogmatic, and takes on subjects that no one else does . . . an oasis of keen intelligence in the comics page, according to the 2003 AAN judges. Here are just a couple headlines from the quirky strip's News of the Times: o?= Computer Loses to Human Candy Land Champion: Despite progress made in developing a computer program that can defeat a human chess champion, computer scientists confess that they have been unable to launch a significant challenge to human supremacy in the game of Candy Land.o?= Scientists Discover Media Has Quantum Effect on Reality: A team of physicists discovers that an electron is in an uncertain state until the media report on it. For example, once an electron was measured and reported upon by Mary Hart on the Celebrity Corner segment of Entertainment Tonight, it instantly assumed its nature as a particle.Tom the Dancing Bug's client list is diverse, representing the breadth of contemporary journalism: alternative newspapers, such as Dallas Observer and the Village Voice; prestigious daily newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times; Salon.com, an acclaimed online magazine; and the New Yorker magazine.