Oil and the Kurdish Question - How Democracies Go to War in the Era of Late Capitalism

Oil and the Kurdish Question critiques the conventional narrative of the Iran-Iraq War and the associated Anfal campaign. It also examines how publicists exploited the myth of the Kurdish holocaust as justification for America to declare war on Iraq.

List of contents

Chapter One¿Background of Events

Chapter TwöCritiquing the Narrative

Chapter Three¿The Trial of Saddam Hussein

Chapter Four¿A Corrupt Enterprise

Chapter Five¿Death of a System

About the author

By Stephen C. Pelletiere

Summary

Oil and the Kurdish Question critiques the conventional narrative of the Iran-Iraq War and the associated Anfal campaign. It also examines how publicists exploited the myth of the Kurdish holocaust as justification for America to declare war on Iraq.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen C. Pelletiere, Pelletiere Stephen C.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781498516662
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1666-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Iran, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Iraq, Modern warfare, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General