Alissa Walter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alissa Walter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Walter |
| SIGNATURE | WALTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle Pacific University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1081-2419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Iraq Against the World
Samuel Helfont’s Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post–Cold War Order, published with Oxford University Press in 2023, draws on internal Iraqi government documents from Saddam Hussein’s regime to shed new light on the contentious relationships between Iraq, the US, and the UN Security Council between the Gulf War of 1990–91 and the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.While Helfont fills in Iraqi perspectives missing from Western-centric h…
The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Baghdad
Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of the Ba‘thist regime, what kinds of historical narratives are starting to emerge among residents of Baghdad about the events of the recent past? How have their experiences with the new Iraqi state over the past twenty years colored Baghdadis’ perceptions of what their lives were like under Saddam Hussein, and how are they making sense of the profound disruptions their city has undergo…
The repatriation of Iraqi Ba‘th Party archives
The displacement of millions of Iraqi archival records to the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s generated considerable controversy about the legality and ethics of moving a country’s archival records to another country, especially during wartime. Since 2020, however, most of these records have been returned to Iraq, though digital copies remain accessible in the United States in many cases. How does the repatriation of Iraqi archival doc…
The Iraqi Occupation of Kuwait
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was a critical juncture in both countries' histories. With unprecedented access to internal Iraqi documents about the invasion of Kuwait, this article underscores how the Iraqi leadership perceived Kuwait, assesses the Iraqi regime's objectives in Kuwait, and analyzes Kuwaiti resistance to the Iraqi occupation. The article ultimately aims to show that Iraq's policies of violence and dispossession in Kuwait were simila…
The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Baghdad
Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of the Ba‘thist regime, what kinds of historical narratives are starting to emerge among residents of Baghdad about the events of the recent past? How have their experiences with the new Iraqi state over the past twenty years colored Baghdadis’ perceptions of what their lives were like under Saddam Hussein, and how are they making sense of the profound disruptions their city has undergo…
The Iraqi Occupation of Kuwait
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was a critical juncture in both countries' histories. With unprecedented access to internal Iraqi documents about the invasion of Kuwait, this article underscores how the Iraqi leadership perceived Kuwait, assesses the Iraqi regime's objectives in Kuwait, and analyzes Kuwaiti resistance to the Iraqi occupation. The article ultimately aims to show that Iraq's policies of violence and dispossession in Kuwait were simila…
The Iraqi Occupation of Kuwait
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was a critical juncture in both countries' histories. With unprecedented access to internal Iraqi documents about the invasion of Kuwait, this article underscores how the Iraqi leadership perceived Kuwait, assesses the Iraqi regime's objectives in Kuwait, and analyzes Kuwaiti resistance to the Iraqi occupation. The article ultimately aims to show that Iraq's policies of violence and dispossession in Kuwait were simila…
The repatriation of Iraqi Ba‘th Party archives
The displacement of millions of Iraqi archival records to the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s generated considerable controversy about the legality and ethics of moving a country’s archival records to another country, especially during wartime. Since 2020, however, most of these records have been returned to Iraq, though digital copies remain accessible in the United States in many cases. How does the repatriation of Iraqi archival doc…
The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Baghdad
Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of the Ba‘thist regime, what kinds of historical narratives are starting to emerge among residents of Baghdad about the events of the recent past? How have their experiences with the new Iraqi state over the past twenty years colored Baghdadis’ perceptions of what their lives were like under Saddam Hussein, and how are they making sense of the profound disruptions their city has undergo…
Iraq Against the World
Samuel Helfont’s Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post–Cold War Order, published with Oxford University Press in 2023, draws on internal Iraqi government documents from Saddam Hussein’s regime to shed new light on the contentious relationships between Iraq, the US, and the UN Security Council between the Gulf War of 1990–91 and the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.While Helfont fills in Iraqi perspectives missing from Western-centric h…
Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (3 works) · History (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cold war (1 work)