Iraq Scholar and Historian

Amatzia Baram

1 article 1998

Amatzia Baram is an Israeli scholar and one of the world's leading academic experts on Iraq and Saddam Hussein's regime, long affiliated with the University of Haifa. He contributed analysis to The Weekly Standard examining the formation of tyrannical power in Iraq.

THE MAKING OF A TYRANT

February 2, 1998 · Magazine

Saddam Hussein is back in the news -- and back on the minds of U.S. policymakers, who soon must come to grips with his prolonged defiance. It may be useful, then, to revisit the Iraqi leader and his aspirations. For this is no tinhorn dictator or mere bombastic demagogue, but a thoroughly ruthless…