Syria under Bashar al-Asad: Modernisation and the Limits of Change (Adelphi series)

Provides a detailed examination of economic and political change in Syria and Syria's position in the Middle East. The author has a wide and in-depth knowledge of Syria, which has been gained from first-hand experience of its political scene and demonstrated in his previously published works.

Perthes, Volker

Reference

Routledge

Three different perspectives on Iran's relations with its neighbors and the rest of the international community are presented in this book. Ray Takeyh's essay on Iran's place in the Greater Middle East is an historical overview of Iran's unique national narrative and Islamic pedigree. Hitoshi Tanaka adopts a comparative approach in his essay to address the challenges posed by the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea. The extensive essay by Volker Perthes examines the issues of Iran's nuclear capacity and regional energy security that are critically important to the United States and Europe as well as East and South Asia.

Engaging Iran: Building Peace in the Persian Gulf Region (Triangle Papers)

History

Takeyh, Ray

Tanaka, Hitoshi

Middle East

The Trilateral Commission

Syria entered a new phase with the death of its long-serving leader, Hafiz al-Asad, and the accession of his son Bashar in 2000. While the new president has disappointed much of the hopes for political opening which he himself has created, Syria is clearly undergoing a process of change. The author analyses the factors of economic and political change in the country, and gives a portrait of its new leadership.

The Political Economy of Syria Under Asad

Syria under Asad has been one of the key regional powers of the Middle East. Though its political development has been a much-debated subject, there has been no comprehensive study in English of the country's political economy and its evolution since 1970 to the present day.

Business & Money

Assad, Hafez

Economics

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

Syria under Asad has been one of the key regional powers of the Middle East. Though its political development has been a much-debated subject, there has been no comprehensive study in English of the country's political economy and its evolution since 1970 to the present day. Beginning with an account of economic development and of changing development strategies, Perthes discusses the factors which in the late 1980s precipitated a change in direction from the socialist orientation of the earlier Ba'thist years to ""infitah"" and a larger role for the private sector. He pays particular attention to class structure and class-state relations and examines the nature of the state, the political structure and the mechanisms and dynamics of political decision-making. Addressing the issue of the interplay between economic transformation and political change, Perthes argues that, although a shift in the power structure will not occur under Asad, his regime has created the institutions which will allow a reasonably smooth succession and a creation of a less personalized and more participatory political order.

I.B.Tauris

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Syria under Bashar al-Asad: Modernisation and the Limits of Change (Adelphi series)

Engaging Iran: Building Peace in the Persian Gulf Region (Triangle Papers)

Syria under Bashar al-Asad: Modernisation and the Limits of Change (Adelphi series)

The Political Economy of Syria Under Asad

The Political Economy of Syria Under Asad