Titlebook: Soviet Policy towards Syria since 1970; Efraim Karsh Book 1991 Efraim Karsh 1991 cooperation.crisis.evolution.Mikhail Gorbachev.nature.Pol

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发誓放弃

Occupation

Legend

From Crisis to Warreement — in fact, the entire delicate web of Soviet-Syrian relations — was subjected to repeated tests. Tensions, crises and ultimately war made it imperative for Moscow to tread cautiously between the need to harness the treaty for Syria’s security and the reluctance to be drawn into too great a commitment.

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Towards a Bilateral Treatyford to continue to alienate Damascus. The Soviets’ sense of urgency in reaching a . with Syria was further enhanced by the election of Jimmy Carter to the presidency and the consequent thrust towards a peace settlement.

Rebate

Conclusions an aggregate military potential comparable with that of the main military blocs’,. has not been lost on Moscow; however, instead of focusing on the direct adverse implications of this phenomenon, the Soviets now tend to view the Middle East problem as part of the wider challenge posed to Soviet security by Third World instability.

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IntroductionUnion, the Middle East is not just another Third World area; it is ., for no reason other than it is the only part of the Third World immediately adjoining Russian territory, and as such a vital component of the USSR’s rimland, posing both grave risks and considerable opportunities to its national s

Hemoptysis

Moscow and Damascus: A Patron-Client Relationship?e patron-client relationship’ and the ‘tail wags the dog’ (or, ‘the power of the weak’). The first mode of analysis argues that relationships between actors of unequal power and status favour, by and large, the patron, whose bargaining position is by definition better than that of the client. Such r