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Syria, the United States, and the war on terror in the Middle East /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabil, Robert G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > Syria.
Syria > Foreign relations > United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.
Online Access:Table of contents
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.
  • 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
  • Changing guards: from "old" to "new" hardliners
  • Conclusion
  • Selected bibliography.