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Inside the Arab Nationalist Struggle - Memoirs of an Iraqi Statesman (Hardcover, New)
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Inside the Arab Nationalist Struggle - Memoirs of an Iraqi Statesman (Hardcover, New)
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On 14 July 1958, with the fall of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, a
chapter of Iraq's history ended. In the wake of this revolution - a
revolution that eventually brought to power the Ba'ath party of
Saddam Hussein - the ancien regime of Iraq found itself both
persecuted and imprisoned. Mohammed Fadhel Jamali, a former foreign
minister and prime minister of Iraq, was no exception. In this
remarkable firsthand account of his time in power he reveals the
diplomatic wrangling at the heart of the Iraqi monarchist regime,
and offers incisive analysis of Iraq's role at both regional and
international levels. The Middle East in the 1950s was a time when
Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser's pan-Arab nationalism caught
the political and intellectual attention of policymakers,
politicians and 'the man on the street' alike. Here, Jamali
outlines how these ideas were put into practice. But despite the
intentions of the idea of pan-Arabism,this post-World War II era
was nonetheless beset with discord and diplomatic difficulties.
Inside the Arab Nationalist Struggle thus explores Iraq's relations
with other Arab states and the wider Middle East, as well as its
policies towards the nascent Israeli state and the newly created
Palestine 'problem'. As foreign minister in the years immediately
after the end of World War II, Jamali was uniquely placed to give
an insight into the formative years of the United Nations. He had
participated in the San Francisco Founding Conference of the United
Nations and signed the United Nations Charter in the name of Iraq.
He also lead the Iraqi delegation at the Asian-African Conference
at Bandung in April 1955, and was present at many of the
negotiations that culminated in the Baghdad Pact, an alliance in
which Iraq, Iran and Pakistan had pledged to collaborate with the
UK and the US in the Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union.
His recollections and analysis thus function as a vital resource
for those trying to understand the roots and development of the
Cold War and the ways in which Cold War diplomacy affected the
Middle East.
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