| Description |
1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; 1. LINKAGE POLITICS AND CONFLICT LINKAGE; Linkage Politics; Conflict Linkage; 2. A CRITIQUE OF THE QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; Data; Methodology; Theory; 3. A PROPOSED METHOD OF RESEARCH; The State Level; The System Level; Synthesis of the State and System Levels; Conflict: Towards a Definition; Basic Variables of Conflict Linkage; Variants of Conflict Linkage; PART TWO: THE CASE STUDY; 4. SYRIA: A LINKAGE POLITICS STATE; The Geo-Political Dimension |
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The National-Ideological DimensionThe Communal-Demographic Dimension; The Structural-Institutional Dimension; The Internal Political Dimension; Linkage Politics and Conflict Linkage; 5. THE SEPARATIST REGIME 1961-1963: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTS; Syria's Political Regime; Types of Internal and External Conflict; Connections between Internal and External Conflicts; The Egyptian-Syrian Conflict; The Syrian-lsraeli Conflict; The Arab-Israeli Conflict; 6. THE BA'TH REGIME 1963-1966: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTS; Syria's Political Regime |
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Types of Internal and External ConflictConnections between Internal and External Conflicts; The Egyptian-Syrian Conflict; The Syrian-Israeli Conflict; The Arab-Israeli Conflict; 7. THE NEO-BA'TH REGIME 1966-1970: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTS; Syria's Political Regime; Types of Internal and External Conflict; Connections between Internal and External Conflicts; The Jadld-Asad Conflict and External Syrian Conflicts; Intensification of Internal Conflict and Outbreak of the Six-Day War; Epilogue; CONCLUSIONS; INDEX |
| Summary |
Traditional studies of linkage politics tend to assume that internal political instability leads a government to divert attention from internal problems by initiating an external conflict or stressing the pressures of international problems |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429696961 |
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0429696965 |
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