This book provides new evidence that there was a direct operational link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. The Link is primarily sourced from the Pentagon Re

Haj explains the pervasive violence of Iraq's political scene not by invoking ageless images of sectarian strife and irrational bloodlust but by showing that th

Michael Herb proposes a new paradigm for understanding politics in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. He critiques the theory of the rentier state and argues that we mu

This updated edition of Charles Tripp's A History of Iraq covers events since 1998, and looks at present-day developments right up to mid-2002. Since its establ

Describes the history of Iraq, from its beginnings as the Sumarian civilization in Mesopotamia through the present day.