Article ID: CBB479739334

Iraq, the United States, and the long shadow of the Cold War (2019)

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From 1975 to 1990, Iraq and the US engaged in a relationship of mutual misunderstanding structured by the Cold War. As Saddam Hussein fixated on the threat of US conspiracies coordinated with Iran and Israel, American officials perceived Saddam Hussein as a pragmatist on the basis of Cold War logics. The end of the Cold War removed the conditions that allowed the two states’ tenuous partnership. Drawing on Iraqi and US records, this article challenges the conventional view that containing Iran drove US-Iraq relations in the 1980s. It re-conceptualises Saddam Hussein as an actor enmeshed in Cold War geopolitics.

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Authors & Contributors
Zofka, Jan
Péter Vámos
Urbansky, Sören
Gnoinska, Margaret K.
Karamouzi, Eirini
Herrala, Meri Elisabet
Concepts
Cold War
International relations
Political science
Geopolitics
Détente
Transnational history
Time Periods
20th century
Places
United States
China
Soviet Union
Hungary
Middle and Near East
Eastern Europe
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Bolshoi Ballet Company
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
Stasi [Ministerium für Staatssicherheit]
International Red Cross
World Bank
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