History of Mesopotamia - Iraq 1900-2006
Arab National Thought; Political Islam with emphasis on the Shi'a;
State and Tribe in the Middle East.

Amatzia Baram: A sample of publications

A. Books

• Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of BaCthist Iraq: 1968-1989 (London; Oxford; New York, 1991), 196 pages.
• Building Toward Crisis: Saddam Husayn's Strategy for Survival (Washington, D.C., 1998), 155 pages.
• Iraq's Road to War, (N.Y. 1993), 304 pages. Edited together with Barry Rubin.

B. A Monograph-Size Article

• "Two Roads to Revolutionary Shi'a Fundamentalism in Iraq", in Martin E. Marty and Scott Appelby (eds.), Accounting for Fundamentalism: the Dynamic Character of Movements (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994), pp. 531-590.
• C. Some articles in journals & publication series
• "Qawmiyya and Wataniyya in BaCthi Iraq, The Search for a New Balance", Middle Eastern Studies, London, Vol. 19, No. 2 (April, 1983), pp. 188-200.
• "Culture in the Service of Wataniyya: The Treatment of Mesopotamian-Inspired Art in BaCthi Iraq", in Asian and African Studies, Haifa, Vol. 17 (Fall, 1983) pp. 265-313.
• "The Ruling Elite in BaCthi Iraq 1968-1986:The Changing Features of a Collective Profile", The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Cambridge and USA, Nov. 1989, pp. 447-493.
• "Territorial Nationalism in the Middle East", in Middle Eastern Studies, London, Vol. 26, No. 4, University of London, Oct. 1990, pp. 425-448.
• BaCthi Iraq and Hashimite Jordan: From Hostility to Alignment", in The Middle East Journal, Washington, D.C., Vol. 45, No.1, Winter, 1991, pp. 51-70.
• "Turmoil in Iraq: The Regime's Number Two Defects", in MEQ, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 1995, pp. 15-21.
• "A Case of an Imported Identity: The Modernizing Secular Ruling Elites of Iraq and the Conception of Mesopotamian-Inspired Territorial Nationalism 1922-1992", Poetics Today (Duke University Press), Vol. 15, No. 2, (Summer 1994), pp. 279-319.
• "Neo-Tribalism in Iraq: Saddam Husayn's Tribal Policies 1991-1996", opening the volume of International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, (Cambridge University Press), Vol. 29, No. 1, (February 1997), pp. 1-31.
• "Re-inventing Nationalism in BaCthist Iraq, 1968-1994", in Princeton Papers, Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Fall 1996 [actually came out Fall of 1997], pp. 29-56.
• "Between Impediment and Advantage: Saddam's Iraq", United States Institute of Peace Special Report Series (USIP, Washington, DC, June 1998), pp. 1-18..
• "The Effect of Iraqi Sanctions: Statistical Pitfalls and Responsibility", Middle East Journal, Vol. 54, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 194-223.
• "Saddam Husayn and Nasirism: 1968-2000", Orient, (Hamburg) Vol. 41, No. 3, September 2000, pp. 461-472.
• "The Making of a Tyrant: Saddam Hussein and how he grew", The Weekly Standard (News America Publishing Inc, NY), Vol. 3 No. 20, February 2, 1998, pp. 25-28.
• "The Odd Couple: Yevgeny Primakov, Saddam's little helper", The New Republic (Washington, DC) Vol. 218, No. 8, February 23, 1998, pp. 17-19.
• "Saddam Husayn's Non-conventional Strategy", (in Hebrew), Ma'arakhot (Tel-Aviv, Ministry of Defense, No. 374-375, February 2001, pp. 10-19.
• "Israil ve Irak'ta Kurt Sorunu", (in Turkish) Avrasya Dosyasi (Ankara), Ilkbahar 1996, pp.149-154. D.

D. Some Chapters in Academic Volumes

• "The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Decision-Making in Baghdad", in Amatzia Baram and Barry Rubin (eds.), Iraq's Road to War (St. Martins' Press, February 1994), pp. 5-36.
• "Calculation and Mis-Calculation in Baghdad", in Alex Danchev and Dan Koehane (eds), International Perspective of the Gulf War 1990-91, (London, Macmillan, Oxford, St. Antony's College, 1994), pp. 23- 58.
• "Iraq", in collaboration with Michael Eppel, in Bernard Reich (ed.), Handbook of Political Science Research on the Middle East and North Africa (Westport, Conn, London, Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 92-117.
• "US Input into Iraqi Decision Making: 1988-1990", in David W. Lesch, (ed.) The Middle East and the US: A Historical and Political Reassessment (Westview, 1996), pp. 325-354.
• "The Missing Link: `Badu' and `Tribal' Honor as Component in the Iraqi Decision to Invade Kuwait", in Joseph Ginat and Anatoli Hazanov, Changing Patterns of Nomads in Changing Societies (Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 1998), pp. 155-170.
• "La 'Maison' de Saddam Husayn", Chapter 10, in Paul Dresch (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University); Edouard Conte and Pierre Bonte (Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-College de France) (eds.), (Paris, CNRS Editions, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-College de France, 2001), pp. 301-330. Includes anthropological family charts and an extended family tree of al-Beigat fakhdh of the tribe of albu-Nasir.

E. Items in Encyclopaedias

• "The Islamic DaCwa Party of Iraq", a contribution to John Esposito (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 121-124.
• Fifteen items in monarchical and post-monarchical Iraq, contributions to Editors: Richard W. Bulliet, Philip Matar, Reeva Simon. (Among the consultants: Lisa Anderson, Charles Issawi, Farhad Kazemi) The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (N.Y., The Middle East Institute, Columbia University, and Macmillan, N.Y., 1996), pp. 131, 215-6, 265, 271, 282-3, 295-7, 331-2, 706-7, 762-3, 777, 788, 939-40, 1518-19, 1733, 1769-1770, 1846.
• Historical geography: "Shatt al-CArab", in Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, (EI 2), (Leiden, E.J. Brill), 1997, pp. 368-369.
• "Iraq: Terrain, Demography, Political History, Political System, Culture (Poetry, Popular Singing, the Plastic Arts, Architecture), the Judiciary and Legal System, The Military, The Security Apparatuses", in Microsoft Encyclopedia Encarta, issued by Microsoft, due in 2002.
• Updating of the item "Iraq", in Encyclopaedia Britannica to be published in 2002 in both versions: the electronic one (CD Rom) and the traditional hard copy volumes of the Britannica, the newest edition.

F. Other Publications

• Position Paper and Testimony presented to the U.S.A. House of Representatives, "US Policy Toward Iraq Three Years After the Gulf War", Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, (Washington, D.C., February 23, 1994), throughout the booklet, and Prepared Statement pp. 54-56.