http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ba'ath Posts tagged with 'ba'ath' at MetaFilter. Wed, 09 Apr 2003 04:41:52 -0800 Wed, 09 Apr 2003 04:41:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/24986/Dictators%2Dand%2Dtheir%2Ddemises <b>Dictators and their demises:</b> a miscellany. <a title="A 1997 graduate dissertation" href="http://www.joric.com/Saddam/Saddam.htm">Saddam and the Destruction of Civil Society in Iraq</a> is the timely find, and deals with the entire history of Iraq since the Ba'ath party takeover, including a detailed ideological history of the party and the increasingly totalitarian aspects of Saddam's rule in Iraq. <i>To ask whether democracy, even in a non-Western sense, has a chance in Iraq is to jump one step ahead of the game. The fundamental questions we need to answer first are: What was the nature of Iraqi civil society before the Ba`thist regime destroyed it? How did the Ba`th oliberate it? And can Iraqi civil society be rebuilt after Saddam has left the stage?</i> [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24986 Wed, 09 Apr 2003 04:41:52 -0800 assassination ba'ath coup hitler iraq nazi plot saddam stalin dhartung