Bonus - 20th Century Iraq and the Rise of Ba'athism, Ep. 4 w/ Brandon Wolf-Hunnicutt (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, associate professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, is back to conclude the series on his book The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. The group delves into the aftermath of the 1963 coups, American narratives that formed around the Middle East in light of "petro dollar Christianity", President Abdul Salam Arif, the founding of the Iraq National Oil Company, the Ba'athist return in the 1968 17 July Revolution, and the state of play in US-Iraqi relations in the 1970s. Subscribe now for the full episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:02.0	That's kind of conversation to your soul.
0:05.0	That's conversation to your soul.
0:10.0	I'm Danny Bessner. Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige.
0:23.8	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison.
0:28.4	And we're very excited to welcome back to the podcast today.
0:31.2	Brandon Wolf Honeycutt.
0:32.5	Brandon is the author of the paranoid style in American diplomacy, oil andomacy, Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq,
0:38.2	and he's also an associate professor at Stanislaus State.
0:41.5	Brandon, thank you so much for joining us.
0:43.4	Well, thanks for having me back.
0:44.3	It's a real pleasure to be on this show.
0:45.5	I always enjoy our conversations.
0:47.4	Me too.
0:48.2	So let's start.
0:49.1	Why don't you recap a end of the conversation with last night, which is the 1963 coup. In Iraq, my understanding,
0:56.5	it's an intra-Bahath coup, but maybe just take us through that and then we'll go on from there.
1:02.1	Yeah, okay. So just to recap from where we left off last time, we were talking about, you know,
1:07.5	during the Casamara, which was the 1958 revolution, he starts the oil
1:11.9	nationalization process, starts to make some progress on that in the early 1960s, at which
1:18.2	point, ironically, or perhaps unexpectedly, a lot of, maybe the natural assumption would be
1:25.6	that the oil companies had sort of pressured the U.S.
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