Soviet policy towards Syria since 1970

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Soviet policy towards Syria since 1970

Efraim Karsh

Macmillan, 1991

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Includes bibliography and index

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This book examines the nature of Soviet policy towards Syria during the last two decades, assessing both Moscow's objectives, and the means to achieving those objectives. While pointing to the fundamental difference between the worldview and tactics of Mikhail Gorbachev and those of his predecessors, the study argues that the overriding concern of Soviet policy towards Syria from Brezhnev to Gorbachev has remained essentially unchanged: namely, the attainment and preservation of regional stability.

Table of Contents

  • PART 1 The structure of Soviet-Syrian relations: Moscow and Damascus-a patron-client relationship?
  • Soviet-Syrian relations - the military dimension
  • the economics of Soviet policy towards Syria. Part 2 The evolution of Soviet policy towards Syria: the formative years, 1970-73
  • war and disengagement
  • Lebanon
  • towards a bilateral treaty
  • from crisis to war
  • the post-Brezhnev interregnum
  • Gorbachev and the Syrians. Appendices: the treaty of friendship and cooperation between the union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and the Syrian Arab Republic
  • the Soviet proposal for a Middle East peace settlement, 29 July 1984
  • Mikhail Gorbachev's dinner speech honouring Asad, 24 April 1987.

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