The future of Ba’athism as a worldview or an ideology, however, remains to be seen. Reza Parchizadeh, PhD, is a political scientist, international affairs specialist, and foreign policy expert.

This would be Syria’s first official exposure to Ba’athism. However, this union was short-lived, with Syria seceding from the UAR in 1961 following a coup headed by Nazim al-Qudsi.

The US-led authority running Iraq said yesterday that up to 30,000 Ba'ath party members would be banned from taking part in a new government.

THE OUSTING of Assad ended decades of Ba’athist rule, opening the door for Syria’s transition to stability. ... (Syrian Transitional Government) to oversee the move away from Ba’athism.

The Ba’ath Party and the intelligence instrument of the Ba’ath state, the Mukhabarat, have permeated every aspect of Iraqi life for decades. Like the Communist Party and the KGB in the former ...

In 1963, the Ba’ath Party seized power, initiating a 61-year era of military rule. Syria became the ideological heart of Ba’athism, a political ideology that combined elements of secularism ...