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The view from Damascus : state, political community and foreign relations in twentieth-century Syria  Cover Image E-book E-book

The view from Damascus : state, political community and foreign relations in twentieth-century Syria

Summary: Itamar Rabinovich sheds light on the recent history and current politics and policies of Syria. The 23 essays cover the century from the First World War to the events of the Arab Spring and its possible affect on Syria's relations with Israel.

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  • ISBN: 0853039461
  • ISBN: 9780853039464
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 371 pages)
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  • Publisher: Edgware : Vallentine Mitchell, 2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Syria and the Syrian land : the nineteenth-century roots of twentieth-century developments -- France and the Levant -- Between nationalists and "moderates" : France and Syria in the 1930s -- Oil and local politics : the French-Iraqi negotiations of the early 1930s -- Inter-Arab relations foreshadowed : the question of the Syrian throne in the 1920s and 1930s -- The greater Syria plan and Palestine problem : historical roots, 1919-1939 -- An anthropologist as a political officer : Evans-Pritchard, the French, and the ʻAlawis / with Gitta Yaffe -- The compact minorities and the Syrian state, 1918-1945 -- Syria : a case of minority might -- Arab political parties : ideology and ethnicity -- The Baʻth regime -- Historiography and politics in Syria -- Syria's quest for a regional role -- Syria, Israel, and the Palestine question, 1945-1977 -- Israel and Husni Zaʻim -- Syria, inter-Arab relations, and the outbreak of the Six Day War -- Israel, Syria, and Lebanon -- From deposit to commitment : the evolution of US-Israel-Syrian peace negotiations, 1993-2000 -- Israel and Syria, Rabin and Asad -- On public diplomacy and the Israeli-Syrian negotiations during the waning of Hafiz al-Asad's rule -- Ehud Barak and the collapse of the peace process -- The Bush administration, Israel, and Syria, 2001-2008.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Syria -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Syria -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
Syria -- Foreign relations -- Israel
Israel -- Foreign relations -- Syria
Genre: Electronic books.

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