Why Syria Goes to War Hardcover - 1996
by Lawson, Fred H
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- Title Why Syria Goes to War
- Author Lawson, Fred H
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1232457038
- ISBN 9780801423734 / 0801423732
- Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.63 x 6.39 x 0.9 in (24.46 x 16.23 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Syria - Politics and government, Syria - Foreign relations - Israel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96017769
- Dewey Decimal Code 330.956
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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. 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.