The Superpowers' Involvement in the Iran-Iraq War
- ISBN-10
- 1560725931
- ISBN-13
- 9781560725930
- Category
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Nova Publishers
- Author
- Adam Tarock
Description
The final index entry of "zero-sum game" aptly encapsulates much about the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War (or Gulf War I as the author terms it) and its spinoff of the 1991 Gulf War II, particularly from the perspective of the US. Torock (whose background is unspecified except for the Melbourne signoff on the preface) views Saddam Hussein as a Frankenstein monster created by, and later turning against, the superpowers in a familiar pattern of their contest of political intervention in the Third World. Includes 16 pages of references. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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