ABSTRACT

During the third phase, the years between GW II and III Wars, SaddamHusayn’s system of rule underwent some important transformations on both the discursive and the institutional levels. The following section will portray and discuss aspects of the regime’s survival policies, as mirrored in a range of secondary sources, with regard to their implications for the dynamics of state-society relations. Domestic developments in Iraq in the 1990s, however, cannot be viewed in isolation. Since external factors in the order of magnitude of the second Gulf War and the UN sanctions regime and weapons inspections dramatically altered the parameters in which Saddam Husayn exercised his power, they must form an integral part of a study on state-society relations in Iraq during this period.