Syria and Iran : middle powers in a penetrated regional system /
It has been the dominant view that both Syria in the 1980s and Iran today have acted as rogue states in the Middle East threatening to upset the stability of the region. In this innovative new study, Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Raymond Hinnebusch show that these two countries have in fact acted in a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | It has been the dominant view that both Syria in the 1980s and Iran today have acted as rogue states in the Middle East threatening to upset the stability of the region. In this innovative new study, Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Raymond Hinnebusch show that these two countries have in fact acted in a rational fashion pursuing the aim of containing Western influence. This book demonstrates how Syrian foreign policy resembles the ""rational actor"" model and Iran's rational factions in government guide its diplomacy. Syria and Iran's foreign policies are shown to be conventional ones, of ""real. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203213780 0203213785 9780415156752 0415156750 9781134730216 1134730217 1138883999 9781138883994 1282778137 9781282778139 9786612778131 661277813X |
