Baath

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1. The Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab socialist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.

   The Baath was small but well organized and bold, and could not be intimidated.

   1995, Milton Viorst, Sandcastles, page 23

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   Today it is they that proclaim the slogan of "federation"—which is opposed to the Baath's postulates.

   1959, Swiss Review of World Affairs, page 23

   Nasser had a country without a party, but the Baath was still a party without a country.

   1978, Lewis B. Ware, A Handbook of the Arab-Israeli Crisis, page 96

   For the Party to succeed in achieving these aims, Aflaq insisted that the Baath had to be nationalist, populist, socialist and revolutionary.

   1980, Adeed I. Dawisha, Syria and the Lebanese crisis, page 46

   The Baath is an avowedly secular party that has pursued socialist economic policies and at one time was aligned with the "godless" Soviet Union.

   2012, William Mark Habeeb, The Middle East in Turmoil, page 185

   The 1973 War was an opportunity for decision makers to demonstrate that their work under the Baath was substantively different than their predecessors, [...]

   2016, Imad Mansour, Statecraft in the Middle East, page 125