“Iraq against the World” .. A book that reveals the documents of Saddam's party, the intelligence se

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[size=52]“Iraq against the World” .. A book that reveals the documents of Saddam's party, the intelligence services, and the “cracks” of the international system[/size]

[size=45]A new book has been published under the title “Iraq against the World” by Samuel Helfont, in which he considers that how to respond to the first Gulf War contributed decisively to reshaping the international system after the Cold War, not just the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite its importance to the United States. Iraq and world peace and security.[/size]
[size=45]And the American “Washington Report” website stated, in a report, that the book, issued by the Oxford University Press in 2023, is based on Iraqi archives from the era of Saddam Hussein, which have not been translated before, and belong to the Baath Party and the former Iraqi intelligence service, along with other Arab sources. , in order to provide new information about how Iraq uses political influence operations with the aim of changing politics and policies in foreign countries.[/size]
[size=45]Baath and intelligence records[/size]
[size=45]According to the report, the author Helfont points out that relying on the records of the Baath Party and the intelligence services ignores the point of view of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose records did not survive the post-2003 war.[/size]
[size=45]Despite this, the report says; These records provide a deep and important insight into how Iraq seeks to emerge from isolation and international condemnation, in addition to providing a rare insight into the nature of political influence operations, which are an ill-considered part of the foreign policies of many countries and difficult to investigate in detail without access. to a large number of internal documents.[/size]
[size=45]And the American report continued that in addition to providing observers of Middle East affairs with amazing new insights, the book also helps readers in general better understand the intrigue surrounding the ongoing campaigns of intervention carried out by Russia, China, the United States, and others.[/size]
[size=45]The invasion of Kuwait[/size]
[size=45]The report stated that the world must be seen through the eyes of the Iraqi government in order to understand Iraqi actions between 1990 and 2003, explaining that for the rest of the world, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 posed a threat to the international order after the Cold War and the victory of liberal democracy globally, and the rule of international law.[/size]
[size=45]"In short, the world was united against Iraq as the major powers exhausted Iraq with sanctions, weapons inspections and no-fly zones through the legitimate power of the United Nations," the report continued.[/size]
[size=45]UN Security Council[/size]
[size=45]He added that Saddam Hussein's Iraq tried to break this united front and confront what it considers to be a regime imposed by the United States through its influence operations, which included publishing certain news reports and paying salaries to activists impersonating ordinary citizens, with the aim of creating division among the members of the UN Security Council.[/size]
[size=45]The report indicated that it must be noted that the Baath Party did not single-handedly create tensions between the coalition countries, while the book argues convincingly that the party's actions reinforced existing political frictions and contributed to the frustration of many people and governments with the sanctions imposed on Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]According to Helfont in his book, the Baghdad plan was highly successful, adding that while during the early 1990s Iraq faced a unified position on the part of the UN Security Council, by the late 1990s the Security Council and even America's allies themselves had become more divided over the importance of And the wisdom of continuing to punish Iraq with devastating sanctions.[/size]
[size=45]Turn the American table[/size]
[size=45]The book “Iraq against the World” considers that Iraq was able to break the consensus on sanctions and turn the tables on the Americans, as by the time of the 2003 invasion, the United States was walking almost alone in its hardening approach towards Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Helfont believes in his book that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed the first major challenge to the post-Cold War neo-liberal international order and contributed to the cracks that began to appear in it in the late 1990s and early 21st century.[/size]
[size=45]After the report referred to the division of the anti-Iraq coalition, and the United States waging its preventive war on Iraq, he said that by acting without a mandate from the United Nations and without the approval of most other countries, Washington found itself at odds with the liberal international order, of which it is supposed to be the main champion.[/size]
[size=45]The report concluded by saying that the story of the history of the collapse of the post-Cold War system is often told through the failures in the Balkans, Rwanda and Somalia, but the book “Iraq against the World” provides a useful correction, as it appears that the first cracks in this system appeared with regard to Iraq. And Iraq itself has actively tried to reinforce these divisions.[/size]
[size=45]The report added that the methods through which Iraq tried to do so provide new insights specifically about Saddam Hussein's foreign policy, and the existing thinking in these pariah and rogue states in general. He concluded by saying that these lines of investigation provide a new vision of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and the successes and contradictions of the global liberal system.[/size]
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