Author: Amatzia Baram, Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of the Modern History of the Middle East, University of Haifa
July/August 2012
Foreign Affairs
Debates about the possibility of containing a nuclear Iran often hinge on judgments of whether the regime there is rational. But as a wealth of recently released Iraqi documents about Saddam Hussein's tumultuous reign in Iraq show, even an arguably rational leader can be unreasonable -- and very hard to deter.
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