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	Rencontre exceptionnelle     Lundi 11 juin     12h30 - 14h / Entrée libre
Rencontre et débat  en anglais avec Joseph Sassoon autour de son ouvrage :« Sadam Hussein's Ba'th party », Cambridge University Press, 2012 (animation Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, directeur de l'iReMMO)
	Présentation de l’éditeur : The Baʿth Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years until the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as rewards and incentives for supporters of the regime. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. What they uncover are the secrets of the innermost workings of Saddam Hussein’s Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers, and how the system of rewards functioned. Saddam Hussein’s authority was dominant. His decision was final, whether arbitrating the promotion of a junior official or the death of a rival or a member of his family. As this gripping portrayal of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq demonstrates, the regime was every bit as authoritarian and brutal as Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China, and Qadhafi’s Libya. En savoir plus
Joseph Sassoon est professeur à l’Université de Georgetown (Washington, DC), actuellement en détachement à l’All Souls College (Oxford). Il est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages tels que Economic Policy in Iraq, 1932–1950 (1987) et The Iraqi Refugees : The New Crisis in the Middle East (2009).
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