Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Roderic Pitty

Roderic Pitty is finishing a doctoral dissertation in politics at the Australian National University in Canberra. He spent three months at Moscow's Institute of Oriental Studies in 1987.

MER Article

Soviet Perceptions of Iraq

From the Soviet point of view, Iraq under the Baath Party has been a troubling enigma, in terms of its place in the Third World generally and its political position in Middle East diplomacy. In the first respect, Iraq during the 1970s did not manage to consolidate itself as one of the USSR’s dependa

Roderic Pitty • 19 min read