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Asking what forces and factors led Iraq into two wars in the space of a decade (the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War), this book shows how President Saddam Hussain's decision-making and Iraq's domestic politics, economics and foreign relations combined in a volatile mix.

Sources include open source material but internal secret files and highly classified audiotapes of Saddam Hussein that were made available to researchers at the Conflict Records Research Center at National Defense University and some documents at the Hoover Institution.

In this book, an innovative approach to the study of ideology in the Arab world explores how, through culture and the re-interpretation of history, a powerful totalitarian regime has endeavoured to cement internal unity among Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious communities. The book analyzes the ways in which, to imbue its citizens with a common destiny of Arab leadership, this regime has set out to convince the Iraqi people to see themselves ...