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100 1  Blaydes, Lisa.|4aut 
245 10 State of repression :|bIraq under Saddam Hussein.|cLisa 
       Blaydes 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c2018 
300    xix, 354 sidor|billustrationer 
520 8  A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the 
       conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisions0How did 
       Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of 
       the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about 
       Iraq's modern political history is that the country was 
       doomed by its diverse social fabric. But in State of 
       Repression, Lisa Blaydes challenges this belief by showing
       that the country's breakdown was far from inevitable. At 
       the same time, she offers a new way of understanding the 
       behavior of other authoritarian regimes and their 
       populations. Drawing on archival material captured from 
       the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'th Party in
       the wake of the 2003 US invasion, Blaydes illuminates the 
       complexities of political life in Iraq, including why 
       certain Iraqis chose to collaborate with the regime while 
       others worked to undermine it. She demonstrates that, 
       despite the Ba'thist regime's pretensions to political 
       hegemony, its frequent reliance on collective punishment 
       of various groups reinforced and cemented identity 
       divisions. In addition, a series of costly external shocks
       to the economy--resulting from fluctuations in oil prices 
       and Iraq's war with Iran-weakened the capacity of the 
       regime to monitor, co-opt, coerce, and control factions of
       Iraqi society. In addition to calling into question the 
       common story of modern Iraqi politics, State of Repression
       offers a new explanation of why and how dictators repress 
       their people in ways that can inadvertently strengthen 
       regime opponents 
648  4 1970-2006 
650  0 History 
650  7 Historia|2sao 
650  7 Totalitära stater|xhistoria|2sao 
651  4 Irak 
653    Dawit Isaak-biblioteket