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Embracing regime change in Iraq: American foreign policy and the 1963 coup d'etat in Baghdad / Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Brandon

Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Brandon	Article
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This article analyzes the U.S. foreign policy response to the 1958 Free Officers’ Revolution in Iraq. I look specifically at the question of the U.S. involvement in the 1963 coup d'état that first brought the Ba‘th party to power. Given the limits of available documentation, I leave the question of CIA involvement to one side and focus on the underlying logic of the U.S. foreign policy toward Iraq between 1958 and 1963. I show that while the American policymakers were deeply divided between a hard-line interventionist faction and a more accommodating anti-interventionist faction, by the middle of 1962, the Kennedy administration embraced regime change as the U.S. policy objective in Iraq. I further argue that it was the perceived threat to Iraqi oil installations, and not the fear of a Communist takeover, that pushed the American policy to embrace a policy of regime change.

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Iraq ; American Foreign Policy ; Baghdad ; Embracing Regime ; 1963 ; Revolution in Iraq

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Oil sovereignty, American foreign policy, and the 1968 coups in Iraq / Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Brandon

Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Brandon	Journal Article
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This analysis assesses American foreign policy toward the Ba’ath Party’s 1968 coup in Iraq. Whilst prominent American business groups expressed sympathy for the new Ba’athist regime in Baghdad, there is, as yet, no available evidence that these business groups received any official support from Washington. On the contrary, key policymakers within the Lyndon Johnson Administration had come to see the Ba’ath as a Cold War “enemy” by the late 1960s.

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American Foreign Policy ; Oil Sovereignty ; 1968 Coups in Iraq

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