De-Ba'athification Programs and the Dismantling of the Mukhabarat
Monday, December 16, 2002 | 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event
The Ba'ath Party and the intelligence instrument of the Ba'ath state, the Mukhabarat, have permeated every aspect of Iraqi life for decades. Like the Communist Party and the KGB in the former Soviet Union, the Ba'ath Party as currently constituted has a vested interest in the continuation of Saddam's Iraq. Removing Saddam Hussein and his henchmen will not be enough to repair decades of brutalizing Ba'athism. How can Iraqi reformers wrench the economy, the government, the educational system, and Iraq's civil society from the Ba'ath party's hands? Can parallels be drawn between post-Saddam Iraq and post-World War II Japan or Germany?
Agenda
8:45 a.m. Registration
9:00 Presenter: Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books
Panelists: Amatzia Baram, University of Haifa
Ibrahim Karawan, University of Utah
Kanan Makiya, Harvard University and Human Rights Committee of the Iraqi National Congress
Hassan Mneimneh, Harvard University
11:00 Adjournment
AEI Participants

 

Danielle
Pletka
  • Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Before joining AEI, she served for ten years as a senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. She writes frequently on national security matters with a focus on domestic politics in the Middle East and South Asia regions, U.S. national security, terrorism and weapons proliferation.
  • Phone: 202-862-5943
    Email: dpletka@aei.org

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    Name: Lazar Berman
    Phone: 202-862-5872
    Email: lazar.berman@aei.org
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