Table of Contents

Introduction: Facing Dictatorship Part 1: The Rise and Fall of an “Instant Power” 1. Authoritarianism and Development: The 1970s 2. On the Way to Armageddon: Iraq in the 1980s 3. Fragmentation vs. Centralisation: Governing Iraq, 1991-2003 Part 2: Power and Society 4. Gender Politics in Ba‘thist Iraq 5. Arts and Politics. Conclusions

About the Author

Achim Rohde is a visiting scholar at the Center for Near and Middle East Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany, and a lecturer at the Asia Africa Institute of Hamburg University.