Policing Measures on Iraqi Kurds during the Iran Iraq War 1980-1988

Präsentation von Ali Dogan (ZMO) beim MESA Annual Meeting.
Panel: Exercising State Power in the Middle East

This paper analyses activities of Iraq’s main intelligence agency, the Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-Amma, carried out during the 1980s against the Kurdish opposition. I use this historical material in order to make a specific, theoretical argument about the role that the Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-Amma played for the maintenance of the Iraqi state.

Session VIII: Exercising State Power in the Middle East