Asad's Legacy: Syria in TransitionFor more than thirty years Hafez al-Asad has ruled Syria with an iron fist. Six U.S. presidents and eight Israeli prime ministers have come and gone, but Asad remains, one of the last of the old generation of Arab leaders. But in the post-Cold War Middle East Asad and his country are faced with an array of bewildering choices. Will they allow greater civil liberties and economic liberalization, or assert strong, centralized one-party control of the state? Will they make peace with Israel, and at what price? Will they cement their growing relationship with the United States or return to the hostilities of the past? |
Contents
Recovery 198385 | 10 |
Part I | 17 |
The System of Government in Asads Syria | 25 |
Part II | 37 |
Start of the New Path Syria during the Gulf Crisis | 52 |
SYRIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE 1990s | 62 |
Syrian foreign policyprinciples and goals | 69 |
Toward an old order | 82 |
Syria and the Palestinian Authority | 88 |