Ba'thist Iraq Through Archives

Lisa Blaydes is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Most recently, she is the author of State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (2018). Samuel Helfont is Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy in the Naval War College Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is the author of Iraq against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order (2023).

"Ba'thist Iraq Through Archives demonstrates the impressive range and depth of research produced by scholars who have worked with captured Iraqi archives since 2003, enabling fundamentally new insights into the operation of authoritarian Arab states, without shying away from the practical and ethical issues raised by their provenance."—Marc Lynch, author of The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East "This volume, based on Iraq's Ba'thist archives, offers critical insights into authoritarian power and showcases new scholars' nuanced approaches that enrich the critical interpretation of these records."—Dina Khoury, author of Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom and Remembrance

• Foreword —JOSEPH SASSOON Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction —LISA BLAYDES and SAMUEL HELFONT 1. Arrested History: Hierarchized Knowledge Production and Iraq's Bath Party Archives — MARSIN ALSHAMARY and SHAMIRAN MAKO 2. The Iraqi Secret Police Documents and the Anfal Campaign: A Personal Account —JOOST HILTERMANN 3. The Iraqi Security Services and the "Dodgy Dossier": The Relevance of Iraqi History and Archives —IBRAHIM AL-MARASHI 4. Captured Records and the Lessons of Learning —KEVIN M. WOODS 5. Generating Theory from Iraqi Archives:Insights from Two Challenging Decades —MÅLFRID BRAUT-HEGGHAMMER 6. Researching Histories of Women and Gender in the Iraqi Bath Party Archives —ALISSA WALTER 7. The Iraq Archives and the Question of Tribalism in Bathist Iraq —YANIV VOLLER 8. The Kurdish Question and the Making of Saddam Hussein — RUIHENG LI 9. Claiming Human Rights Violations in Iraq: Kurdish and Iraqi Bathist Attempts to Gain International Recognition in the 1990s —LILY HINDY 10. The Bath and the Assyrian Diaspora —ALDA BENJAMEN 11. The Origins of the Archive: New Sources for the Study of Bath Party Founder Michel Aflaq in Iraq —MICHAEL BRILL 12. Resource Mobilization and Regime Survival in Saddam Hussein's Iraq —ECKART WOERTZ 13. Using Media Sources to Understand Activism and Political Expression in Iraq Under Saddam Hussein —AHMED AL-RAWI 14. Bathists in the Arab Gulf States and Iraq-Gulf Relations —TOBY MATTHIESEN 15. Chemical Weapons, COIN, and Coercion: Explaining Iraq's Gassings During the Anfal —DAVID PALKKI and LAWRENCE RUBIN 16. The End of History on the Euphrates: Iraqi Perspectives on the Final Chapter of the Cold War —DANIEL CHARDELL 17. Baghdad, Moscow, and the Soviet Bloc: Insights from the Iraqi Bath Party Records —KATE TIETZEN-WISDOM 18. Minding the Gaps: Knowns and Unknowns After the 2003 Invasion —DAVID SIDDHARTHA PATEL Conclusion —ARIEL I. AHRAM Notes Index