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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813927603321

Autore

Hassan Hamdi A

Titolo

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait : religion, identity, and otherness in the analysis of war and conflict / / Hamdi A. Hassan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 1999

ISBN

1-84964-037-8

0-585-42634-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

956.7044/2

Soggetti

Persian Gulf War, 1991

Panarabism

Persian Gulf Region Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 UNDERSTANDING THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE REALIST PERSPECTIVE -- THE INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- THE REFLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 2 THE REALIST PERSPECTIVE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE REALIST PERSPECTIVE:A THEORETICAL OUTLINE -- IRAQ 'S ASSESSMENT WHEN INVADING KUWAIT -- AMERICAN -IRAQI RELATIONS 1984 -90 -- 3 THE INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE:A THEORETICAL OUTLINE -- THE OVERLAPPING OF IDENTITIES -- THE DOMESTIC SOURCES OF THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT -- THE GENEALOGY OF THE POLITICAL ELITES IN THE  ARAB WORLD -- THE QUESTION OF MITIGATING IRAQ 'S ECONOMIC NEEDS -- 4 THE REFLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE REFLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE:A THEORETICAL OUTLINE -- ISLAM AND ARABISM:THE GENEALOGY OF A DISCURSIVE REGIME -- THE ARABIC POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND THE INVASION OF KUWAIT -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: WRITING TO UNDERSTAND OR MAPPING TO CONQUER: DE/ CONSTRUCTING THE MYTH OF HOMO ARABICUS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1: UNDERSTANDING THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT -- CHAPTER 2:THE REALIST PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER 3: THE INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER 4: THE REFLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: WRITING TO



UNDERSTAND OR MAPPING TO CONQUER -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- Abbasi, Sheikh Madani -- 175 -- 232n -- Abdu, Mohammad -- 122 -- 232n -- Abu Deeb, Kamal -- 128 -- 204 -- Abu Jabber, Kamal 128 -- Abu Jahl 242-3n -- Abu Khalil, Assad 198 -- Abu Nasser clan -- 23 -- 85 -- 86 -- 96-7 -- Abu Zaid, Nasr Hamed 151 -- Abu Zant, Sheikh al-Mun'im 174-5 -- Abu-Hanifa 234n -- Aflaq, M. -- Aflaq, M  85 -- Aflaq, M  122 -- Aflaq, M  123 -- Aflaq, M  133 -- Ajami, Fouad 224n -- al-'Azm, S. 239n -- al-Afaghani, Jamal ad-Din -- 122 -- 232 -- al-Amara 107 -- al-Bakr, Ahmed Hassan -- 85 -- 97-8 -- al-Bashir, Omar 132 -- al-Bayati, Abdul Wahab 26.

al-Bazzaz, [Abd al-Rahman] 122 -- al-Bitar, N. -- al-Bitar, N  122 -- al-Bitar, N  239n -- al-Bukhari 234n -- al-Din, Khayr 232n -- al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya 176 -- al-Halaj, M. 233n -- al-Husari, Sati' -- 122 -- 219n -- al-Husseini, Sheikh Amin 170 -- al-Jabiri, Muhammad Abid -- 128 -- 168 -- al-Jawaheri, Mohammad 26 -- al-Jeelani, A. 233n -- al-Keelani, Rashid Aali 170 -- al-Khalifa family 96 -- Al-Khalil, Samir -- 84 -- 85 -- 87-8 -- 101 -- 124 -- 138-9 -- 247n -- al-Khateeb, Ahmad 155 -- al-Maguid family 97 -- al-Malaeka, Nazik 26 -- al-Mawardi 141 -- al-Mulk, Nizam 141 -- al-Nahyan family 96 -- al-Qaddumi, Farooq -- 128 -- 167 -- al-Sa'dawi, Nawal 168 -- al-Saadun, Ahmad 155 -- al-Sabah family -- 24-5 -- 75 -- 96 -- 145 -- 182 -- al-Sabah, Jaber al-Ahmed, Amir of Kuwait -- al-Sabah, Jaber al-Ahmed, Amir of Kuwait  7 -- al-Sabah, Jaber al-Ahmed, Amir of Kuwait  141 -- al-Sabah, Mubarak 223n -- al-Sabah, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad 111 -- al-Sadat, Anwar -- 26 -- 166 -- 176 -- 217n -- 218n -- 242n -- al-Said, Nuri 202n -- al-Samaraai, Wafeeq 100 -- al-Sayab, Badr Shakir 26 -- al-Shafi'i 234n -- al-Tahtawi, R. 239-40n -- al-Tamimi, Sheikh Asaad 174 -- al-Thani family 96 -- al-uja 97 -- al-Wardi, Ali 220 -- Alawites, Syria -- 96 -- 227n -- Algeria -- 52 -- 135 -- 163 -- 166 -- 175 -- Algerian Islamic Salvation Front [FIS] 175 -- Ali, Fourth Caliph 142 -- Allah -- 26 -- 119-20 -- 138 -- 140 -- 141 -- 173 -- 174 -- 206n -- 214n -- 216n -- Islamic concept of  233n -- Allison, G.T. -- Allison, G.T  6 -- Allison, G.T  20 -- Allison, G.T  91 -- Allison, G.T  185 -- Allison, G.T  203-4n -- Amnesty International 176 -- anarchy -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- Anderson, B. -- Anderson, B  68-9 -- Anderson, B  70 -- Anderson, B  74 -- Anderson, B  135 -- Anderson, B  187 -- Anderson, B  219-20n -- anti-Americanism -- 165-6 -- 169-70 -- anti-Semitism 149-51.

Arab Cooperation Council [ACC summit 1990] -- 24 -- 165 -- 196 -- Arab leaders/regimes -- 61-2 -- 89-92 -- 101 -- 138-9 -- 140 -- 188 -- 219-20n -- and Arab unity  70 -- and Arab unity  83 -- pan-Arab support  8-9 -- role conflict  28-30 -- role conflict  35 -- strategies  80-1 -- support from population  65 -- support from population  81 -- Arab League -- 44 -- 65 -- 160 -- 162 -- Arab states -- division  37-8 -- and the people  83 -- foreign policy  22-7 -- foreign policy  30 -- foreign policy  31-2 -- foreign policy  61 -- history of  63-7 -- history of  120 -- maltreatment of citizens  88 -- maltreatment of citizens  222n -- modernization  95 -- political structure  56 -- relations with West  163 -- solidarity  10 -- solidarity  30 -- solidarity  52 -- solidarity  135 -- Arab world -- 12 -- 64 -- 117 -- and common wealth  112 -- and common wealth  155 -- and national interest  20 -- and national interest  28 -- and national interest  82 -- blood kinship  92-6 -- blood kinship  233-4n -- hereditary nobility  93 -- linguistic unity  70 -- linguistic unity  152 -- national identity  69-70 -- national identity  113-14 -- national identity  188 -- negative community  146 -- patriarchal society  91 -- patriarchal society  141 -- political institutions  66 -- rich and poor  6 -- rich and poor  25 -- rich and poor  33 -- rich and poor  155-7 --



social values  59 -- social values  60 -- Western influence  61 -- Arab-Israeli conflict -- 10 -- 34 -- 65 -- Arabhood -- 10 -- 152 -- Arabic Renaissance [nahda] 68 -- Arabism -- 2 -- 5-6 -- 69 -- 71 -- 90 -- and Islam  5 -- and Islam  9-12 -- and Islam  28 -- and Islam  118-30 -- and Islam  132 -- and Islam  137 -- and Islam  188-9 -- and national interests  23-4 -- and national interests  28 -- and national interests  114 -- and national interests  219n -- and Others  137 -- and Others  148-54 -- and Others  191.

and statesovereignty  23 -- and statesovereignty  30 -- and statesovereignty  32 -- and statesovereignty  35 -- and statesovereignty  115 -- and statesovereignty  137-48 -- as collective identity  8-9 -- as collective identity  117 -- as collective identity  122 -- as collective identity  138 -- as collective identity  146 -- as collective identity  216-17n -- as collective identity  219n -- cultural capital  126-7 -- cultural capital  135-6 -- vs. Arab state  67-71 -- Arabs -- 66-7 -- 137 -- Areba Arabs  236n -- grass-roots  2 -- grass-roots  52 -- grass-roots  159-64 -- mainstream  164-73 -- musta'aribah [Arabized Arabs]  236n -- politicization of  64-5 -- Arafat, Yassir -- 132 -- 161-2 -- 167 -- Ardd-u-Allah [Allah's land] 142 -- Arefs brothers 97 -- Arendt, H. -- 218n -- 222n -- 225n -- worldlessness, concept of  218n -- as-Suwairah 97 -- asabiyya -- 92 -- 93-4 -- 227n -- Assad, Hafez President -- 96 -- 132 -- 133 -- 163 -- 173 -- 176 -- 227n -- authoritarian regimes -- 58 -- 86 -- 87 -- 98-102 -- and passive population  64-5 -- and passive population  139 -- foreign policy  7-8 -- foreign policy  55 -- foreign policy  77 -- political tradition  138-9 -- Aziz, Tariq -- 102 -- 228n -- 229n -- 246n -- Ba'ath regime -- 23 -- 29 -- 39 -- 57 -- 82 -- 85-8 -- 202n -- 235n -- alienation from Iraqi society  78 -- alienation from Iraqi society  87 -- and economy  109 -- and integrity of State  73 -- and kinship  97 -- and Kuwait invasion  8 -- and Kuwait invasion  81 -- and Westerntolerance  49 -- despotism  56 -- despotism  72 -- despotism  74 -- despotism  85 -- illegitimate  83-4 -- popularity of  153 -- Baghdad 73 -- baghi 175 -- Bahrain 96 -- Ball, Nicole -- 82 -- 106 -- Barakat, Halim 91 -- Barnett, M. -- Barnett, M  28 -- Barnett, M  82 -- Basra -- 73 -- 107 -- Batatu, Hanna -- 96 -- 248n -- Bazoft, Ferzad -- 34 -- 49 -- 52 -- 80 -- 213n.

Be'eri, E. 220-1n -- Beblawi, H. 80 -- Beg, Aslam 207n -- Beg, Sabih 143-4 -- Belhadj, Ali 175 -- Ben Ali, Z. 163 -- Benn, Tony [British MP] 205n -- Boughaiba, H. 163 -- Bourdieu, P. -- Bourdieu, P  131 -- Bourdieu, P  135 -- Bourdieu, P  214-15n -- Bourdieu, P  234-5n -- Bourdieu, P  237-8n -- brinkmanship 78 -- Brown, Carl L. 41 -- Bubiyan -- 22 -- 75 -- 111 -- Buchanan, P. 212n -- Bull, Hedley 16 -- Bush, George -- 41 -- 43-4 -- 49 -- 50 -- 164 -- 195 -- Butler, Richard 1 -- Buzan, Barry 45-6 -- Caliph Othman 238n -- Caliphate -- 139 -- 174 -- Ceausescu, N 243n -- Chirot, D. 81-2 -- Chomsky, N. 200n -- Christianity -- natural law  16 -- tradition demythologized  118 -- CIA, warnings ignored 44 -- clans 84-5 -- Conrad, J.[Heart of Darkness] 200n -- constructive engagement -- 43 -- 49 -- coups d'etat 66 -- Cox, R. 184 -- Cox, Sir Percy 143-5 -- Crusaders -- 174 -- 175 -- 177 -- culture -- 236 -- and institutions  58-9 -- role of  126-7 -- role of  215-16n -- role of  224n -- d'Amato, Alfonso 162 -- Damascus 164 -- Dar-il-islam 120 -- Dawisha, A. -- Dawisha, A  79 -- Dawisha, A  91 -- dawla 141-2 -- decision-makers -- 6-7 -- 15 -- 19-20 -- and force  79 -- and knowledge  17 -- and knowledge  31-2 -- and knowledge  53-4 -- and territorial disputes  147 -- and war  54 -- domestic dynamics  183-4 -- organizational process model  20-1 -- rational actor model  20 -- rational actor model  58 -- rational actor model  184 -- rational actor model  185 -- decision-making --



and collective myth  122 -- and institutionalized beliefs  55-6 -- and institutionalized beliefs  57-8 -- and institutionalized beliefs  61 -- and kinships networks  101-2 -- and perceptions  115 -- and perceptions  179-80 -- and perceptions  185-6 -- foreign policy  61 -- foreign policy  62 -- foreign policy  118 -- foreign policy  147-8 -- foreign policy  181-3 -- definition of 235-6n.

Dessouki, A.E.H.