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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Saddam"”.
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Iraq under Saddam Husayn and the Ba'th Party
This work is, essentially, an assessment of Saddam's regime in Iraq, one of the cruellest and most violent regimes of modern times, and the Ba'th Party policies and ideological principles, recognised by Saddam as the theoretical basis for his practices. These policies and practices have had …
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Post-Saddam Iraq: Caught Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Strategic Rivalry
… rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia in postSaddam Iraq, particularly focusing on the period from 2010 to 2014. To capture the complexity of this rivalry, the thesis develops a conceptual framework based on foreign policy analysis, rivalry studies, and international relations theories. …
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One man's wickedness : malignant narcissism and major blunders in international relations
… in international relations. Examples include Saddam, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Nasser. Seventeen hypotheses are presented on malignant narcissism, exploring its relationships to cognition, domestic political systems, and blunders in international relations. The hypotheses are …
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Diminishing Returns: An Anthropological Study of Iraqis in the UK
… emergence of the Baath regime in the 1960s and Saddam Hussein's rise to power in 1979. Throughout, I examine the heightened salience of sectarianism among Iraqis in exile and in Iraq since the 1990s. Instead of understanding sectarianism as a return to traditional loyalties, I argue that it is …
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Marketing the Iraq War: Manifest Content Analysis of US Executive Framing
… national security than the continuing reign of Saddam Hussein\'s regime in Iraq. Through analysis of individual and group contributions to the three dominant themes created by the executive leadership, namely, the link between the regime of Saddam Hussein and terrorism, the pursuit of weapons of …
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Assassination: An Assessment
… against the United States and its citizens. Saddam Hussein is a Near Eastern despot who was a threat to the United States even before his invasion of Kuwait in 1991. Hussein has been developing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in order to destroy Israel, a strategically important …
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OPERATION DESERT STORM: AN EXAMINATION OE THE STRATEGIC AIR CAMPAIGN
… They sought to kill, overthrow or isolate Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath regime or use the threat of these to compel the Iraqi forces to withdraw from Kuwait. The study explores why the «dccapitation strategy» did not succeed in instituting a change in the Iraqi regime. Findings derive from …
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Challenges and Opportunities: The Impact of the Press Law (2008) on the Role of Journalism in the Kurdistan Region post-2003
… focusing on developments since the fall of Saddam Hussein¿s regime in 2003 in order to identify the challenges which have faced journalists there, and the construction of national identity and the potential opportunities which this sector presents for shaping public opinion and strengthening …
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Leadership Style And Diversionary Theory Of Foreign Policy: The Use Of Diversionary Strategies By Middle Eastern Leaders During And In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Gulf War
… Assad of Syria, King Hussein of Jordan, and Saddam Hussein of Iraq during this period have been interpreted as intended to divert the attention of their people and unify their people around their flags. These foreign policies will be analyzed in relation to the leadership traits of the three …
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The Effect of Regional Security Environments on State Attitudes Regarding the Use of Force and International Law: A Quantitative Analysis Utilizing International Positions on Operation Iraqi Freedom
The US-led war to oust the regime of Saddam Hussein elicited a wide range of responses among liberal states, from active diplomatic opposition in the prelude to war to actual combat support once hostilities commenced. These divergent responses, in part, reflected different perceptions of the …
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The media in transition: The rise of an "independent" press in Post-Invasion Iraq and the American role in shaping the Iraqi press 2003 - 2005
… the Iraqi press landscape after the toppling of Saddam’s regime on the 9th of April 2003. In particular, it attempts to disclose American interventions in the work of the Iraqi press in the period 2003-2006. It examines three main aspects of these interventions, as briefly summarized below: press …
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New Middle East Cold War: Saudi Arabia and Iran's Rivalry
… states into an embittered rivalry. The fall of Saddam Hussein following the 2003 U.S. led invasion, the establishment of a Shi’ite Iraq and the 2011 Arab Uprisings have further inflamed tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Iran and Saudi Arabia have not confronted each other militarily, but …
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President George W. Bush’s Policy Towards Iraq: Change or Continuity?
… this assertion, as it is both the year in which Saddam Hussein gained power as president of Iraq and also the year when the United States began tilting favourably towards, and reviving its relations with, this country. To embark on this study a descriptive and analytical narrative of the …
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Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi‘ism in Contemporary Syria
… ‘backward.’ They are not the only ones. Both Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah ‘Ali Khamenei have called the bloody flagellation practices, which have only increased in popularity in Sayyida Zaynab over the past few decades, ‘backward’ and ‘irrational.’ Why do these outsiders condemn these Twelver …
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Iran in U.S. Corporate and Regional Media: A Content Analysis of The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rooz Online, Al Jazeera and Iran Review
… question the Bush administration’s claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.</p> <p>This study responds to the need to systematically assess the available news content about this conflict. Using content analysis of two legacy U.S. news outlets, and three outlets more …
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The Effect of the Sunni-Shi'a Conflict in Shaping Arab Countries' Response to the Shi'a Crescent and a Nuclearizing Iran
… Arab-Islamic history, when the Iraq War removed Saddam Hussein's Sunni regime from power in Iraq. This rise of Shi'as' political power in Iraq overlapped with the "re-revolutionizing” of Iran in 2005, as Shi'ite fundamentalists regained power in Iran and accelerated its nuclear program. As a …
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The Impact of Iraq on Turkey-US Relations
… of the nature and urgency of the threat Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait posed to their national interests, and on the requisite strategy to deal with that threat. Between 1991 and 2001, it became apparent that the unintended economic, political and strategic consequences of the …
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Wounded Hegemon: The 2003 Iraq War and George W. Bush's Grand Strategy of Primacy
… this respect, September 11 shed a new light on Saddam Hussein, his potential weapons of mass destruction, and the possibility that he could either use these weapons directly or pass them on to terrorists. The Bush administration believed that defeating Hussein and transforming Iraq would not …
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Justifying power : ruling group dominance and regime justification in multi-ethnic states
… countries--Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq (under Saddam Hussein), Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Case studies of one high-dominance country (the UAE), one medium-dominance (Yemen), one low-dominance (Iraq), and one outlier (Bahrain) then illustrate the speculated …
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Sovereign borrowing without odiousness: legal instruments to substitute the odious debt doctrine in the repudiation of sovereign debt
… the gravest human rights violations, such as Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq2 and the South African Apartheid regime, the sovereign debt was not declared odious.3 The thesis clarifies why the odious debt doctrine has never been applied in practice and what legal options exist instead to repeal …
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