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Saddam Hussein

Autor: Mylène Théliol , 50minutes,

Número de Páginas: 45

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Saddam Hussein en moins d’une heure ! Arrivé au faîte du pouvoir malgré ses origines précaires, Saddam Hussein mène l’Irak d’une main de fer pendant une vingtaine d’années. S’il reçoit au début de son règne l’appui du monde occidental afin de mettre un terme à la révolution islamique d’Iran, l’homme fort du Moyen-Orient verra très vite ses alliés se retourner contre lui. C’est que le raïs irakien a d’autres visées : dominer les pays arabes afin de faire de l’Irak la nouvelle Babylone. N’hésitant pas à mettre le Moyen-Orient à feu et à sang, il mène guerre sur guerre afin de parvenir à ses fins. La communauté internationale qui, hier encore, lui fournissait son aide n’a d’autre choix que de se retourner contre lui, et fait de lui l’ennemi public n° 1. Peu à peu, les erreurs stratégiques que commet Saddam Hussein l’amputent de son pouvoir, et l’Irak sombre dans le chaos ... Ce livre vous permettra d’en savoir plus sur : • La vie de Saddam Hussein • L’Irak avant l’accession au pouvoir de Saddam Hussein • Les temps forts de la dictature de Saddam Hussein • Les...

L'Irak de Saddam Hussein, portrait total

Autor: Georges Malbrunot , Christian Chesnot

Número de Páginas: 168

On ne présente plus Saddam Hussein, pourtant le connaît-on vraiment ? Aucun livre n'a été publié récemment sur le dictateur irakien, au pouvoir depuis 25 ans. Depuis 1980 le peuple irakien est directement victime de Saddam Hussein et de l'embargo imposé par l'ONU. Ce pays riche jadis est revenu à un niveau de grande pauvreté pour une population et une jeune génération totalement déstructurées par le pouvoir. La tyrannie du raïs la rend otage de ce régime sanguinaire. Pour les Américains et les autres états d'Occident, les sanctions devaient devenir insupportables pour le peuple sur lequel on misait pour renverser le dictateur. Il n'en a rien été tant le pouvoir exerce son contrôle sans faille sur tous les rouages du pays, sur toute la population. La famille, la tribu, le parti, les alliances communautaires... voici quelques éléments grâce auxquels Saddam Hussein se maintient en place usant d'une violence permanente, au milieu d'une piètre opposition locale non déclarée ouvertement, des chiites au sud, des Kurdes au nord, des rivalités, des velléités indépendantistes de cette mosaïque communautaire qui constitue l'Irak. Quelques soient les plans...

Zabiba y el Rey

Autor: Mohamad Alsaqar

Número de Páginas: 287

Propos du Président Saddam Hussein sur la politique arabe et internationale de L'Irak

Autor: Saddam Hussein

Número de Páginas: 43

Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World

Autor: Jerrold M. Post

Número de Páginas: 328

"Post is a pioneer in the field of political-personality profiling. He may be the only psychiatrist who has specialized in the self-esteem problems of both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."--The New Yorker "Policy specialists and academic scholars have long agreed that for U.S. leaders to deal effectively with other actors in the international arena, they need images of their adversaries. Leaders must try to see events, and, indeed, their own behavior, from the perspective of opponents.... Faulty images are a source of misperceptions and miscalculations that have often led to major errors in policy, avoidable catastrophes, and missed opportunities. History supplies all too many examples."--from the ForewordWhat impels leaders to lead and followers to follow? How did Osama bin Laden, the son of a multibillionaire construction magnate in Saudi Arabia, become the world's number-one terrorist? What are the psychological foundations of man's inhumanity to man, ethnic cleansing, and genocide? Jerrold M. Post contends that such questions can be answered only through an understanding of the psychological foundations of leader personality and political behavior.Post was founding...

Saddam Hussein, ou, Le devenir irakien

Autor: Fouad Matar , Fuʼād Maṭar , Saddam Hussein

Número de Páginas: 326

Propaganda and the Public Mind

Autor: Noam Chomsky

Número de Páginas: 199

First published in 2001, Propaganda and the Public Mind constitutes a series of discussions with the journalist David Barsamian and is the perfect complement to Chomsky's major works of media study such as Manufacturing Consent and Necessary llusions. Events discussed in detail are the so-called 'Battle of Seattle' protests against the World Trade Organisation, US involvement in East Timor, and the beginning of the movement towards a second Iraq War - as well as timeless explorations of Chomsky's political friends and influences such as the Pakistani scholar Eqbal Ahmad. This book is an invitation to take part in a conversation with one of the great minds of our time.

The Erotics of Corruption

Autor: Ruth A. Miller

Número de Páginas: 242

In this provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period, Ruth A. Miller argues that narratives of political corruption rely upon an explicitly pornographic rhetoric and have been instrumental in carving out lawless or exceptional space. Drawing upon an extensive and wide-ranging literature, she examines corruption, the erotic, and legal exceptionalism as they appear in media representations of Saddam Hussein as "corrupt leader," nineteenth-century political cartoons, Pier Pasolini's film Salo, Ernst Kantorowicz's theorization of the body politic, Giorgio Agamben's analysis of biopolitics, and Achille Mbembe's discussion of the postcolony. Miller comments on both the erotic nature of the state of exception and colonial or postcolonial manifestations of it, and presents a new voice in ongoing conversations about law, violence, and sexuality in the contemporary world.

Saddam Hussein

Autor: Amīr Iskandar

Número de Páginas: 393

Saddam Hussein, was He Really a Tyrant?

Autor: G. T. Ngubola Kamwambe

Número de Páginas: 84

Fast Facts on the Middle East Conflict

Autor: Randall Price

Número de Páginas: 210

The conflict in the Middle East raises many questions for Americans, Christians, and the world community. Randall Price, a bestselling author and expert in Middle Eastern studies, provides concise answers to those questions. In a practical Q-and-A format with maps, charts, and sidebars, this book unveils a fascinating timeline of the conflict development as it answers: Why is America involved? What are the common misconceptions about the conflict? How does the truth differ from the headlines? Is there a way to resolve this situation? Price's knowledge of Israel, Islam, and the current controversies provides an insider's information in a quick-reference format. Readers will be able to understand the complex issues appearing in today's media reports.

Emotional Choices

Autor: Robin Markwica

Número de Páginas: 350

Why do states often refuse to yield to military threats from a more powerful actor, such as the United States? Why do they frequently prefer war to compliance? International Relations scholars generally employ the rational choice logic of consequences or the constructivist logic of appropriateness to explain this puzzling behavior. Max Weber, however, suggested a third logic of choice in his magnum opus Economy and Society: human decision making can also be motivated by emotions. Drawing on Weber and more recent scholarship in sociology and psychology, Robin Markwica introduces the logic of affect, or emotional choice theory, into the field of International Relations. The logic of affect posits that actors' behavior is shaped by the dynamic interplay among their norms, identities, and five key emotions: fear, anger, hope, pride, and humiliation. Markwica puts forward a series of propositions that specify the affective conditions under which leaders are likely to accept or reject a coercer's demands. To infer emotions and to examine their influence on decision making, he develops a methodological strategy combining sentiment analysis and an interpretive form of process tracing. He...

Historia política del mundo contemporáneo

Autor: Peter Calvocoressi

Número de Páginas: 762

Este libro pretende abarcar en toda su complejidad la escena de los acontecimientos políticos mundiales, desde el año 1945 hasta el final de 1986. Atento a todas las áreas de conflicto, el autor estudia, utilizando las mejores fuentes, la crisis de Oriente Medio, La Guerra del Golfo, el laberinto centroamericano, el desafío al dominio blanco en Sudáfrica, el asesinato de Indira Gandhi, la Guerra de las Malvinas, la evolución de la democracia española o la situación libia, poniendo al día problemas globales de naturaleza más duradera, de China a Nigeria, de Polonia a Etiopía, de Irlanda del Norte a Filipinas.

Code of Federal Regulations

Número de Páginas: 1028

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Saddam's War of Words

Autor: Jerry M. Long

Número de Páginas: 292

From a Western perspective, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 largely fulfilled the first President Bush's objective: "In, out, do it, do it right, get gone. That's the message." But in the Arab world, the causes and consequences of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent defeat by a U.S.-led coalition were never so clear-cut. The potent blend of Islam and Arab nationalism that Saddam forged to justify the unjustifiable—his invasion of a Muslim state—gained remarkable support among both Muslims and Arabs and continued to resonate in the Middle East long after the fighting ended. Indeed, as this study argues in passing, it became a significant strand in the tangled web of ideologies and actions that led to the attacks of 9/11. This landmark book offers the first in-depth investigation of how Saddam Hussein used Islam and Arab nationalism to legitimate his invasion of Kuwait in the eyes of fellow Muslims and Arabs, while delegitimating the actions of the U.S.-led coalition and its Arab members. Jerry M. Long addresses three fundamental issues: how extensively and in what specific ways Iraq appealed to Islam during the Kuwait crisis; how elites, Islamists, and the...

Cambridge Game Changer : Guaranteed Pass for Cambridge "O" & "A" Level Exams.

Autor: David Chitate

Número de Páginas: 1331

This groundbreaking book, authored by Dr. David Chitate and distributed by Swipe Educational Solutions LLC, is the first of its kind in the 21st century, offering a comprehensive Past Exam Question Bank with answers developed through collaboration with Subject Examiners, Subject Teachers and Artificial Intelligence. It equips students to excel in Ordinary and Advanced Level Exams, featuring Examiners' tips, common candidate errors, syllabus review exercises, model answers and much more. This transformative resource, boasting over 900 pages of exam-focused content per subject, guarantees that an "A" grade is within reach, revolutionising how students prepare for exams.

The American Culture of War

Autor: Adrian R. Lewis

Número de Páginas: 585

The American Culture of War presents a sweeping, critical examination of every major American war of the late 20th century: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars, through to Operation Enduring Freedom. Lewis deftly traces the evolution of US military strategy, offering an original and provocative look at the motives people and governments used to wage war, the debates among military personnel, the flawed political policies that guided military strategy, and the civilian perceptions that characterized each conflict. Now in its second edition, The American Culture of War has been completely revised and updated. New features include: Completely revised and updated chapters structured to facilitate students’ ability to compare conflicts New chapters on Operation Iraqi Freedom and the current conflict in Afghanistan New conclusion discussing the American culture of war and the future of warfare Over fifty maps, photographs, and images to help students visualize material Expanded companion website with additional pedagogical material for both students and researchers. The American Culture of War is a unique and invaluable survey of over seventy years of...

Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication

Autor: Vian Bakir

Número de Páginas: 257

Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication offers insights into impacts on strategic political communication of the emergence of web-based participatory media ('Web 2.0') across the first decade of the 21st century. Countering the control engendered in strategic political communication, Steve Mann's concepts of hierarchical sousveillance (politically motivated watching of the institutional watchers) and personal sousveillance (apolitical, human-centred life-sharing) is applied to Web 2.0. Focusing on interplays of user-generated and mainstream media about, and from, Iraq, detailed case studies explore different levels of control over strategic political communication during key moments, including the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, and Saddam Hussein's execution in 2006. These are contextualized by overviews of political and media environments from 2001-09. Dr Bakir outlines broader implications of sousveillant web-based participatory media for strategic political communication, exploring issues of agenda-building, control, and the cycle of emergence, resistance and...

Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation

Autor: Etel Solingen

Número de Páginas: 403

Leading scholars analyse key dilemmas in the application of sanctions and inducements on states that violate international non-proliferation commitments.

The West Stole Africa's Wealth

Autor: Khoza Mduduzi

Número de Páginas: 646

The West stolen Africas wealth and invested it in the IMF, World Bank and European Bank. Through the colonization of Africa, the West not only managed to impoverish the African continent but it managed to build its own world class infrastructure through ill-gotten wealth from Africa. Africa is the richest continent on the face of the world as far as mineral resources is concern, but, Africans are the poorest people on the face of the world. Its an open secret that the majority of skyscrapers in the US were built by African slaves who were bought from Gore Island in Senegal at the cheapest price and transported to the US. From the Dark Age until to the information age, the African continent is the only continent where there is no perennial political peace. Africans have been on the run from their civil wars for quite a long period of time, to the point that some Africans have emigrated from the African continent to live in the West where they are not even welcomed and accepted. African mineral resources are sufficient enough to the point that if they were equally and fairly utilized in the interest of the Africa people, Africa was going to be a poverty-free continent. Unfortunately ...

9/11 and its Remediations in Popular Culture and Arts in Africa

Autor: Heike Behrend , Tobias Wendl

Número de Páginas: 141

9/11 has been described as an "absolute event" that radically changed the course of history. It reinforced the opposition between Christian and Muslim worlds and led to the declaration of a unilateral war against a global network of terrorists that broke up the classical definition of war as a war between nation states. Yet, 9/11 also created responses in parts of the world that were not directly involved in the unfolding "war on terror." In Africa, local conflicts were re-mapped into an emerging new geography of anger that also reflects the effects of marginalization in a globalized world. The essays of this volume explore local remediations of 9/11 in African popular culture (posters, photographs, videos, cartoons, etc.) and visual arts. They give evidence of the fundamental ambivalence towards the event of 9/11 and provide insights into the various ways distant conflicts are translated into intense proximities. (Series: African Art and Visual Cultures - Vol. 3) [Subject: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Art]

Les journaux télévisés en France et en Allemagne

Autor: Patricia Von Münchow

Número de Páginas: 264

Compare les séquences télévisuelles du journal d'informations en France et en Allemagne, et en étudie le discours. L'analyse de ces deux situations relève d'une discipline appelée linguistique de discours comparative, se situant au carrefour de l'analyse du discours française et de la linguistique textuelle allemande.

Le Guide suprême

Autor: Patrick Boman , Bruno Fuligni , Stéphane Mahieu , Pascal Varejka

Número de Páginas: 120

Soixante portraits de dictateurs, sanguinaires et corrompus, ayant tous le désir d'être appréciés et considérés : Mao fait imprimer ses poèmes sur des timbres-poste, Staline se considère comme un linguiste, Duvalier écrit sur la non-violence ...

Attention médias!

Autor: Michel Collon

Número de Páginas: 308

Politics and Change in the Middle East

Autor: Roy Anderson , Robert Seibert , Jon Wagner

Número de Páginas: 447

A longtime bestseller, Politics and Change in the Middle East employs a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively and evenhandedly study the region‘s past, present, and future. Through politics, economics, culture, and history, this text offers a rugged analytical framework that familiarizes students with the Middle East and helps them to critically evaluate contemporary developments. Thematically organized, Politics and Change in the Middle East introduces students to the primary actors and issues that define the region and its role in world politics.

Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East

Autor: Jamie Stokes

Número de Páginas: 841

Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East is a two-volume A-to-Z reference to the history and culture of the peoples of Africa and the Middle East.

The Origins of Overthrow

Autor: Payam Ghalehdar

Número de Páginas: 257

Why has the United States repeatedly engaged in the overthrow of foreign leaders and regimes? Although most regime change interventions have neither furthered US national security nor improved the fate of targeted states, the US has turned to this foreign policy instrument in at least sixteen cases from 1906 to 2011. In The Origins of Overthrow, Payam Ghalehdar explains US-imposed regime change by focusing on its emotional underpinnings. Based on a thorough analysis of the emotional state of five US presidents, he shows how "emotional frustration"-an emotional syndrome that combines hegemonic expectations, perceptions of hatred in target state obstructions, and negative affect-has repeatedly influenced US regime change decisions. When US presidents have been gripped by this emotion, Ghalehdar argues, they have turned to the use of force and targeted perceived sources of obstruction in order to ameliorate their emotional state and discharge frustration. Examining five US regime change episodes in two world regions (Cuba 1906, Nicaragua 1909-12, and the Dominican Republic 1963-65 in the Western hemisphere, and Iran 1979-80, and Iraq 2001-03 in the Middle East), he empirically...

American Conservatism

Autor: Brian Farmer

Número de Páginas: 477

American Conservatism: History, Theory, and Practice from Brian R. Farmer is a history of conservatism in the United States that illuminates the odyssey of American conservatism beginning with the Pilgrims and Puritans of the early colonial period and proceeding through the Revolutionary era, the Antebellum period, the Age of Laissez-Faire, Post-Depression Conservatism, the Reagan Era, and concluding with the ideologies and policies of the George W. Bush Administration, arguably the most ideologically driven conservative administration in American history. Conservatism in general and the multiple facets of conservatism are defined, and the political socialization process that produces and perpetuates political ideologies in general and conservatism in particular are presented, to lay the groundwork for the rich history of American people, policies, and events that have surrounded those conservative ideologies that follows. Farmer provides a tool for those interested in American Politics in general and American conservatism in particular with a tool that helps explain the historical development of American ideological conservatism, both in a theoretical sense, and in a policy...

American Hiroshima

Autor: David J. Dionisi

Número de Páginas: 234

American Hiroshima delivers concrete ideas to defeat terrorists, strengthen democracy, reduce weapons of mass destruction, and establish the United States as a 21st century force for peace.

Code of Federal Regulations

Autor: United States. Department Of The Treasury

Número de Páginas: 924

Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of July 1 ... with ancillaries.

C'est parti !

Autor: Pancho

Número de Páginas: 113

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

I was Saddam's Son

Autor: Laṭīf Yaḥyá , Karl Wendl

Número de Páginas: 328

As the stand-in for one of Iraq's most powerful and hated men, he participated in affairs of state, made public appearances, and, during the Gulf War, visited the troops on the front lines while Uday stayed safely in Switzerland. He also saw firsthand the horrors and absurdities of a regime based on corruption and intrigue. He was privy to unbridled scenes of debauchery, and witnessed repeated instances of torture, terror, rape, and murder.

Comprendre le pouvoir

Autor: Noam Chomsky

Número de Páginas: 400

Les discussions et conférences rassemblées dans ce livre offrent une perspective profonde et généreuse pour comprendre l’état du monde, et notamment les enjeux liés au pouvoir. Y sont abordés le fonctionnement des médias, les systèmes d’éducation, la crise environnementale, le complexe militaro-industriel, la mondialisation, les stratégies militantes, et plus encore. Comprendre le pouvoir couvre ainsi l’intégralité de la pensée de Noam Chomsky et en constitue la meilleure introduction qui soit. La pensée politique de Chomsky ne cherche à imposer ni une vision nouvelle ni une grande idée. Elle se distingue bien plutôt par sa capacité à compiler une énorme quantité d’informations factuelles pour les rendre signifiantes. Par un travail d’analyse concrète de grande ampleur, Chomsky s’emploie toujours à démasquer, cas après cas, les tromperies des organisations occidentales les plus puissantes. Émaillés d’une grande quantité d’exemples, ses textes incitent à penser par soi-même et encouragent l’esprit critique. Comprendre le pouvoir se présente ainsi sous la forme très accessible d’échanges, de discussions, de conversations avec des ...

The U. N. Role in the Persian Gulf and Iraqi Compliance with U. N. Resolutions

Autor: Diane Publishing Company

Número de Páginas: 403

The record of the hearings by the U.S. Congress in 1991 to discuss the role of the U.N. in the aftermath of the Gulf war. Covers: monitoring the implementation of the cease-fire agreement, peacekeeping reparations, repatriation, reconstruction, environmental clean-up and the plight of hundreds of thousands of dip;aced persons and refugees. Nuclear and chemical and biological sites discussed. Drawings, charts and tables.

The Iraq War Reader

Autor: Christopher Cerf

Número de Páginas: 738

Despite the torrent of coverage devoted to war with Iraq, woefully little attention has been paid to the history of the region, the policies that led to the conflict, and the daunting challenges that will confront America and the Middle East once the immediate crisis has ended. In this collection, Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, coeditors of the acclaimed Gulf War Reader, have assembled essays and documents that present an eminently readable, up-to-the-moment guide -- from every imaginable perspective -- to the continuing crisis in the Gulf and Middle East. Here, in analysis and commentary from some of the world's leading writers and opinion makers -- and in the words of the key participants themselves -- is the engrossing saga of how oil economics, power politics, dreams of empire, nationalist yearnings, and religious fanaticism -- not to mention naked aggression, betrayal, and tragic miscalculation -- have conspired to bring us to the fateful collision of the West and the Arab world over Iraq. Contributors include: Fouad Ajami George W. Bush Richard Butler John le Carré Noam Chomsky Ann Coulter Thomas Friedman Al Gore Seymour Hersh Christopher Hitchens Arianna Huffington...

Facing Saddam's Iraq

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Foreign Relations

Número de Páginas: 32

Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm

Autor: John Andreas Olsen

Número de Páginas: 377

In response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on the second of August 1990, a small group of air power advocates in the Pentagon proposed a strategic air campaign - "Operation Desert Storm" designed to drive the Iraqi army from Kuwait by a sustained effort against the major sources of Iraqi national power. John Andreas Olsen provides a coherent and comprehensive examination of the origins, evolution and implementation of this campaign. His findings derive from official military and political documentation, interviews with United States Air Force officers who were closely involved with the planning of the campaign and Iraqis with detailed knowledge and experience of the inner workings of the Iraqi regime.

HU - Les grandes dates de l'histoire américaine (7e édition) - Ebook epub

Autor: Pierre Lagayette

Número de Páginas: 258

19 dates-chapitres qui ont fait l’histoire américaine : un exposé principal en anglais et un éclairage complémentaire en français, des rubriques d’accompagnement (keywords, figures, people, places), des cartes et des illustrations, un index et des tableaux récapitulatifs.

Congressional Record

Autor: United States. Congress

Número de Páginas: 2072

The Iran-Iraq War

Autor: Efraim Karsh

Número de Páginas: 311

The Iran-Iraq War, which ended in the summer of 1988, a month short of its eighth anniversary, is undoubtedly the Third World's longest and bloodiest conflict in a half-century. As such, its lessons and implications extend beyond the geographical confines of the Middle East. Bringing together Israeli, American and European specialists from the fields of Middle East history, international relations, strategy and economics, this book offers the first comprehensive post bellum analysis of the impact and implications of the Iran-Iraq war. The book starts with an examination of the war's impact on the domestic and foreign affairs of the two belligerents, continues with a discussion of the political ramifications of the war in both the regional and the global spheres, and concludes by analysing the economic, military and strategic implications.