LEADER 04799nam 2200745 450 001 9910824995103321 005 20211012005158.0 010 $a0-8122-9038-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290387 035 $a(CKB)3710000000086211 035 $a(EBL)3442333 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001115621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11607056 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11083419 035 $a(PQKB)11240724 035 $a(OCoLC)871670280 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34807 035 $a(DE-B1597)449614 035 $a(OCoLC)979685058 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290387 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442333 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10833621 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682477 035 $a(OCoLC)932313186 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442333 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000086211 100 $a20140212h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom dictatorship to democracy $ean insider's account of the Iraqi opposition to Saddam /$fHamid al-Bayati ; Peter Galbraith, foreword 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-322-51195-0 311 0 $a0-8122-4288-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword /$rGalbraith, Peter --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Birth of the Iraqi Opposition --$t2. The Journey from Salah al-Din to Washington --$t3. Failed Coups and U.S. Policy Shifts --$t4. A Strategic Shift: From Containment to Liberation --$t5. Uniting the Opposition --$t6. War and Occupation --$t7. Dealing with Bremer --$t8. Negotiating the Transition --$t9. Self-Rule --$tConclusion. The New Iraq --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Today, Hamid al-Bayati serves as Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations. But for many years he lived in exile in London, where he worked with other opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime to make a democratic and pluralistic Iraq a reality. As former Western spokesman for the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and as a member of the executive council of the Iraqi National Congress, two of the main groups opposing Saddam's regime, he led campaigns to alert the world to human rights violations in Iraq and win support from the international community for the removal of Saddam. An important Iraqi diplomat and member of Iraq's majority Shia community, he offers firsthand accounts of the meetings and discussions he and other Iraqi opponents to Saddam held with American and British diplomats from 1991 to 2004. Drawn from al-Bayati's personal archives of meeting minutes and correspondence, From Dictatorship to Democracy takes readers through the history of the opposition. We learn the views and actions of principal figures, such as SCIRI head Sayyid Mohammed Baqir Al-Hakeem and the other leaders of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmed Chalabi and his Kurdish counterparts, Masound Barzani and Jalal Talabani. Al-Bayati vividly captures their struggle to unify in the face of not only Saddam's harsh and bloody repression but also an unresponsive and unmotivated international community. Al-Bayati's efforts in the months before and after the U.S. invasion also put him in direct contact with key U.S. figures such as Zalmay Khalilzad and L. Paul Bremer and at the center of the debates over returning Iraq to self-government quickly and creating the foundation for a secure and stable state. Al-Bayati was both eyewitness to and actor in the dramatic struggle to remove Saddam from power. In this unique historical document, he provides detailed recollections of his work on behalf of a democratic Iraq that reflect the hopes and frustrations of the Iraqi people. 606 $aOpposition (Political science)$zIraq 606 $aExiles$xPolitical activity$zIraq 607 $aIraq$xHistory$y1991-2003 607 $aIraq$xHistory$y2003- 607 $aIraq$xPolitics and government$y1991-2003 607 $aIraq$xPolitics and government$y2003- 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aOpposition (Political science) 615 0$aExiles$xPolitical activity 676 $a956.7044/3 700 $aBaya?ti?$b H?a?mid$01612728 701 $aGalbraith$b P$g(Peter)$01612729 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824995103321 996 $aFrom dictatorship to democracy$93941690 997 $aUNINA