Baathism

noun

Baath·ism ˈbä-thi-zəm

variants or Ba'athism

: the principles and policies of the Baath political party of Iraq and Syria characterized especially by promotion of pan-Arab socialism

Baathist noun or adjective

or Ba'athist

ˈbä-thist

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There were indeed some Islamic elements to Baathism and official Iraqi government policy in the late 1960s and 1970s. —

Amatzia Baram, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2016 The cultural Arabism of Zaydan is historically and ideologically distinct from the Syrian Baathism that seems to inform the television show, but Calderwood says nothing about Arabism or Baathism or their relations. —

Robyn Creswell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2021