Samir al-Khalil

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Describes what he calls the most ruthless regime in the world, that of Saddam Hussein & his Bath Party in Iraq. Shows the importance of the obsessive fabrication of enemies, & the tortuous logic that compels Hussein to maintain a state of perpetual alert against the enemies of Arabism both inside & outside the country. Explains how such a state could be created in the late 20th century. Chapters: a chronology from 1918; the Bathist polity: institutions of violence; a world of fear; Bathism & the masses, & authority; the legitimation of Bathism: Pan-Arabism & Iraq, formation of the Bath, & the legitimation of Iraqi Bathism. Purges of high-ranking, 1968-1989.