The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis

William B. Quandt, Elaine Sciolino

Foreign Affairs · 1991 · 38 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The Mother of All Battles State-Building on the Ruins of Mesopotamia From the Tribesman to the Mythmaker Terror and Enticement The Iran-Iraq War: Saladin and the Messiah Inside the Middle East Cauldron The Arming of Iraq A Case Study in a Failed Policy The Regional Superpower The Invasion of Kuwait The Drift to War The Degradation of Iraq Appendix A Chronology of Events Bibliography Acknowledgements Index.