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Iraq against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order de Samuel Helfont

Iraq against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order

Autor Samuel Helfont
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 iun 2023

Nivel de studiu: licență și master în relații internaționale sau studii de securitate. În Iraq against the World, Samuel Helfont propune o reevaluare surprinzătoare a politicii externe irakiene de după 1991, poziționând regimul lui Saddam Hussein nu doar ca pe un paria internațional, ci ca pe un actor sofisticat care a declanșat un război politic global. Observăm cum, în loc să se limiteze la o rezistență pasivă în fața sancțiunilor, Bagdadul a orchestrat campanii de influență menite să fragmenteze consensul marilor puteri.

Această lucrare extinde cadrul propus de Iraq de Anthony H Cordesman cu date noi extrase direct din arhivele interne ale Partidului Ba'th, oferind o perspectivă „din interior” asupra modului în care au fost manipulate narativele politice în Occident și în lumea musulmană. În timp ce America and Iraq se concentrează pe perspectiva politicii externe a SUA, Helfont mută centrul de greutate către agenția statului irakian, demonstrând cum spionajul, infiltrarea presei străine și coalizarea unor grupuri politice eterogene au servit scopului de a submina ordinea unipolară de după Războiul Rece.

Stilul este analitic și riguros, ancorat în documente primare care dezvăluie strategii de „statesmanship” manipulativ. Această abordare continuă cercetările anterioare ale autorului din Compulsion in Religion, unde a explorat relația regimului cu islamul politic, și completează viziunea de ansamblu oferită în The Iraq Wars. Descoperim aici rădăcinile revizionismului statal contemporan, autorul argumentând convingător că tacticile irakiene au deschis calea pentru provocările actuale lansate de alte puteri asupra sistemului internațional liberal.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197530153
ISBN-10: 019753015X
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 162 x 243 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

O lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă cum un stat supus sancțiunilor poate destabiliza ordinea globală. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra mecanismelor de dezinformare și influență ale regimului Saddam Hussein, bazată pe documente de partid anterior secrete. Este o recomandare solidă pentru specialiștii în istorie diplomatică și analiștii geopolitici care caută să înțeleagă tranziția de la lumea unipolară la actuala dezordine internațională.

Despre autor

Samuel Helfont este un expert recunoscut în istoria Orientului Mijlociu și relații internaționale, specializat în arhivele regimului Ba'th din Irak. Lucrările sale precedente, precum Compulsion in Religion și The Iraq Wars, s-au concentrat pe dinamica internă a puterii în Bagdad și pe impactul intervențiilor americane. Expertiza sa este definită de capacitatea de a sintetiza surse primare în limba arabă cu teorii moderne ale științelor politice. În prezent, contribuie semnificativ la literatura de specialitate prin analize care recontextualizează rolul Irakului în securitatea globală, fiind publicat de edituri prestigioase precum Oxford University Press.

Descriere

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.

Recenzii

Using the Iraqi archives for the first time, Helfont provides deep insights into how Saddam Hussein's Ba'thist regime sought to undermine America's post-Cold War order. Far from being a marginal actor on the global stage, Iraq's efforts inevitably placed it in the crosshairs of the George W. Bush administration and help explain why the disastrous invasion of Iraq became a White House obsession. The book successfully shifts our focus from great power politics to illustrate how relatively small countries can play important roles in world affairs. The focus on Iraq also helps explain wider transformations in international politics, and further emphasizes the central role of the Middle East over the last three decades.
Helfont has written the essential book about Iraqi influence operations abroad during the leadership tenure of Saddam Hussein. While most existing studies have focused on Iraq's domestic political scene, Helfont gives us a window into Iraqi activities abroad, including the conditions under which the regime succeeded or failed in achieving its foreign policy objectives.
Saddam Hussein's regime placed a high priority on undermining support for international sanctions on Iraq after 1991. Drawing on the vast archive of internal Ba'thist documents captured after the 2003 invasion, Samuel Helfont shows in gripping detail how the Iraqi regime sought to exploit global outrage over the humanitarian crisis. His account digs deep to document how Iraq attempted to manipulate well-intentioned civil society activists, journalists, politicians, and UN officials in a global campaign of information warfare and political manipulation.
Samuel Helfont, a brilliant Arabist with extensive experience on the ground, does indeed offer 'profound and unprecedented insights into Iraq's foreign policy.'ÂHis authoritative account reveals how the shrewd Âmaneuvers of Saddam Hussein's global Ba'thist network vexed the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations' efforts to forge a 'new world order' following the 1991 Gulf War. A chilling read.
This book deserves a wide readership among scholars of US foreign policy, global politics, and the Middle East. It is a landmark book not only of Iraq scholarship but global history...it is also a model of clear and concise historical writing.
Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
This book is a persuasive study for readers who are interested in understanding changes happening in the character of the UAE, specifically after the formal accession of Mohammed bin Zayed as head of the UAE in 2022.
The scope of Iraq against the World is impressive as it speaks to multiple audiences and literatures. Scholars of international relations, comparative politics, and diplomatic history would be interested in this book, as would policy-makers and journalists.
[A] fabulous account ... The fact is that the US's past politics in Iraq laid the foundation of the volatile Middle East one is witnessing today. Further, no other accounts on Iraq or US's geopolitical approach in the region in the decades of 1990s and 2000s have been so comprehensive and well-explained as is the case with this volume. The book is a must-read for those who are keen to grasp the essence of the past and present politics of Iraq along with the larger Middle East and how the US has been a catalyst in shaping today's Middle East.
[This book] forced me to reconceptualize the wars that have been the focus of my days and my nightmares for the past three decades.
Overall, this clear, well-researched book offers an important retelling of the post-Cold War era, highlighting Iraq's central role in the 1990s diplomatic efforts to establish a New World Order. By centering the Iraqi government's actions, Helfont restores an important balance in diplomatic history by underscoring the active role the Baʿth Party played in challenging the terms of sanctions.

Notă biografică

Samuel Helfont is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Policy in the Naval War College program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His research focuses on international history and politics in the Middle East, especially Iraq and the Iraq Wars. He maintains affiliations with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University and the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He is the author of Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2018). His work has also been published by Foreign Affairs, The International History Review, The Middle East Journal, Texas National Security Review, Orbis, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The American Interest, and War on the Rocks, among other outlets. Helfont served as an intelligence officer in the US Navy and Navy Reserve. An Iraq War veteran, he completed deployments both afloat and ashore in the Middle East. He also served onMiddle Eastern and counterterrorism missions at various American intelligence agencies.