Why Syria Goes to War : : Thirty Years of Confrontation / / Fred H. Lawson.
Rejecting conventional explanations for Syrian foreign policy, which emphasize the personalities and attitudes of leaders, cultural factors peculiar to Arab societies, or the machinations of the great powers, Fred H. Lawson describes key shifts in Damascus's response to regional adversaries in...
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Lawson, Fred H., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Why Syria Goes to War : Thirty Years of Confrontation / Fred H. Lawson. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1996 1 online resource (240 p.) : 1 map, 19 graphs, 2 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cornell Studies in Political Economy Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Linking Domestic Conflict to Foreign Policy -- 1. Provoking Confrontation with Israel, 1967 -- 2. Limiting Intervention in Jordan, 1970 -- 3. Expanding Intervention in Lebanon, 1976 -- 4. Defusing Confrontation with Iraq, 1982 -- 5. Abjuring Confrontation with Turkey, 1994 -- 6. Domestic Conflict and Crisis Escalation in a Liberal- Democratic Syria -- Conclusion: Implications for Further Research -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Rejecting conventional explanations for Syrian foreign policy, which emphasize the personalities and attitudes of leaders, cultural factors peculiar to Arab societies, or the machinations of the great powers, Fred H. Lawson describes key shifts in Damascus's response to regional adversaries in terms of changes in the intensity of political struggles at home. Periodic eruptions of domestic conflict have inspired Syria's ruling coalition to adopt a wide range of programs designed to buy off domestic rivals and perpetuate the predominance of individual coalition members. These programs have undermined the unity of the Ba'thi regime, increasing the chances that opponents will overturn the established order. Challenges to the Ba'thi regime become most threatening whenever crises of accumulation shake the domestic political economy, Lawson contends. Opposition forces gain strength when the state cannot sustain new investment or when competition increases between public and private enterprises. Political and economic trends inside Syria have determined why Damascus has since 1963 alternately escalated tensions with regional rivals and adopted more accommodating postures. Lawson traces this dynamic through five major episodes: the 1967 war with Israel; limited intervention in Jordan in 1970; the widening conflict in Lebanon in 1976; the defusing of conflict with Iraq in 1982; and the rapprochement with Turkey over Kurdish separatism in 1994. These patterns, Lawson suggests, may be characteristic of nations changing from one domestic economic system to a radically different one, as Syria has in the transition from state socialism to a privatized political economy. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Arab-Israeli conflict Economic aspects Syria. War Economic aspects Syria. Middle East Studies. Military History. Political Science & Political History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731860 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501731860 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501731860/original |
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