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  title info:
    title: Syria, the United States, and the war on terror in the Middle East
  name:
    name part: Rabil, Robert G.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 289 pages : ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Cradle of Arab nationalism: the fatherland, the Ba'th and modern Syria under Asad -- The beginning of U.S.-Syrian relations : between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Cold War --The emergence of US-Syrian ambivalent relationship -- The fulcrum of elusive peace -- A new cold war? -- The new struggle for Lebanon: democracy and Syria's withdrawal -- Syria post-withdrawal: reform or dictatorship? -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
  table of contents: Cradle of arab nationalism: the fatherland, the Ba'th and modern Syria under Asad -- The emergence of Arab nationalism and the concept of greater Syria -- Syria: the hub of nationalist development -- The Ba'th party and Syrian leadership -- The state under Asad -- The beginning of US-Syrian relations: between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Cold War -- Recognition and neutrality (1944-1953) -- The "new look" and Baghdad Pact -- The Soviet insertion in the Middle East -- The Eisenhower doctrine and the Middle East -- A try at evenhandedness -- Turning points (1967-1979) -- Kissinger's realpolitik -- A foretaste of Middle Eat diplomacy: the May 1974 dsengagement agreement -- A new beginning? -- The emergence of US-Syrian ambivalent relationship -- The implications of fighting evil for the Middle East -- The brink of war -- The irony of fighting terrorism -- The emergence of Hizbollah -- Support for Israel -- Rewarding Syria -- The fulcrum of elusive peace -- The Bush years: priorities reordered -- Breaking the ice: the Madrid peace conference -- The Clinton years: cooperation versus limits -- Toward the brink of peace -- The last encounter -- A new regional order? -- The unholy relationship -- Shebaa Farms: the powder keg of the Middle East -- Transfer of power -- A new American outlook -- Put on notice -- A de facto member of the "axis of evil" -- A new cold war? -- Punishing Syria -- Wishful versus realpolitik thinking -- Domestic considerations: reform and the Kurdish question -- Dynamics of confrontation -- Digging in -- Toward the brink? -- The new struggle for Lebanon: democracy and Syria's withdrawal -- Pressuring Syria: Washington and the Lebanese-American lobby -- Breaking the last straw: Hariri's assassination -- The swift collapse of the Syrian order in Lebanon -- Lebanon: the new republic -- The dynamics of the Lebanon-Syria-US triangular relationship -- Syria post-withdrawal: reform or dictatorship? -- Closing ranks: reform versus clan control -- Changi…
  note: Robert G. Rabil ; foreword by Walid Phares.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-266) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: a-sy---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Syria
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2001-2009
  classification: E183.8.S95 R33 2006
  classification: 327.730569109/045
  identifier: 027599015X (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2005034115
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005034115.html
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      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005034115.html
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 051121
    record change date: 20151103154554.0
    record identifier: in00002144663