The Arab Ba'th Socialist Party

History, Ideology and Organization

Kamel Abu Jaber

• Publisher: Hesperus Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781843919919
• eBook ISBN: 9781843919926
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The Arab Ba'th Socialist Party was first published in 1966 by Syracuse University Press and has been revised and republished in 2024 by Hesperus Press with the original foreword by renowned Middle Eastern historian, the late Dr. Philip Hitti, Professor Emeritus of Arabic Studies at Princeton University; it also includes a preface by Professor Tareq Tell, who teaches Political Studies and the History of the Middle East at the American University of Beirut. This book covers the early years of the establishemnt of the party based on peronsal interviews with the founders. It is still considered an important reference to students as well as academics of Middle Eastern history and political ideologies, such as Arab nationalism and socialism and the Ba'th Party.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by Philip K. Hitti
• Preface
• Author’s Introduction
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Epigraph
• 1. Beginnings of Arab Socialism
• 2. The Advent of the Arab Ba’th Socialist Party
• 3. Drift to the Left, 1954–58
• 4. Ba’th and the U.A.R.
• 5. The Break-up of the U.A.R.
• 6. The Ba’th Party in Iraq, 1963
• 7. Syria, the Ba’th Party, and the Loss of Iraq
• 8. Ba’th Ideology
• 9. Ba’th Socialism
• 10. Ba’th Orientation
• 11. Organization and Structure
• 12. Conclusions
• Appendix A: Decisions of the Sixth National Convention of the Arab Ba’th Socialist Party, 1963
• Appendix B: Constitution of the Arab Ba’th Socialist Party
• Appendix C: Syrian Provisional Constitution, 1964
• Bibliographic Essay
• Index
•  About the Author
• Copyright