Why Syria Goes to War: Thirty Years of Confrontation (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality; 224 pages with chapter notes and an index.
The author focuses on domestic political factors that have influenced Syria's military and foreign policies; the book covers the period 1967 to 1994.
Rejecting conventional explanations, Lawson describes key shifts in Damascus's response to regional adversaries. Lawson traces this dynamic through five major episodes: the 1967 war with Israel; limited intervention in Jordan in 1970; the widening conflict in Lebanon in 1976; the defusing of conflict with Iraq in 1982; and the rapprochement with Turkey over Kurdish separatism in 1994.
These patterns, Lawson suggests, may be characteristic of nations changing from one domestic economic system to a radically different one, as Syria has in the transition from state socialism to a privatized political economy.
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