The Iraqi Baathist Government and its Foreign Relations 1968- 1976

Authors

  • Karwan Salih Waisy The University of Zakho, The Department of History, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Zakho

Keywords:

The political development in Iraq, the Baathist government, Iraq’s regional and international relations, Iran, the Kurds and the communists as well as the Iraqi policy implication for the US.

Abstract

In the years since the left-wing Baathist Party came to power in July 1968 the party leadership has consolidated its hold and formed a relatively stable government in a state long noted for its disunity, instability and huge level of political violence. The position of the Baathist leadership has been enhanced by recent successes the dramatic hike in Petroleum prices in 1973, the defeat of Kurds and the accord with Iran in March 1975. These advantages have enabled the Second Baathist government to initiate new approaches to its domestic and foreign policies not possible in the early years of its rule. This article focus on these policy approaches and the forces shaping the operating assumption of the Second Baathist leadership in its decision making processes. Since the absence of any comprehensive Agency evaluation of Iraq in present years, a discussion of the second Baathist consolidation of power and the emergence of political, economic and social policies aimed at presenting internal unity and stability is showed along with an analysis of the sources of possible political warfare. This study concludes with an examination of present Iraqi foreign policy objective also their implication for the United States interests in the region. This article outlines the history and genesis of the second Baathist government in Iraq. This study presented a significant amount of positively not published details about these parties. Particular attention is given to link between the second Iraqi Baathist government and its reaction to the political transformation in Iraq. The Baathist government and the National front. The Baathist government regional and international relations. This study is a historical research based on qualitative study .This study is extensively used original texts of the United States Foreign Relations (FUR) documents.

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Waisy, K. S. (2017). The Iraqi Baathist Government and its Foreign Relations 1968- 1976. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 31(1), 341–367. Retrieved from https://www.gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/6633

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