46. Honor-Shame and International Relations: Case of Saddam Hussein
47. See below, chapter 6. For a good contemporary example of the problem, see the case of Saddam Hussein who, even as he had to cease the production of weapons of mass destruction after 1991, continued to wear his nuclear clothes for public consumption—at the cost of devastating sanctions against his country—lest his neighbors, especially the Iranians, think him weak. According to his FBI interrogator, George Piro: “For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam. He thought that . . . would prevent the Iranians from reinvading Iraq.”
