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Middle East Review of International Affairs
Syria and the War in Iraq
by Eyal Zisser
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Abstract
Many in the West believed that Bashar al-Asad's ascension to power in Syria presaged a turn away from Pan-Arab nationalism and toward a more pro-Western position. However, three years into his rule, Bashar al-Asad has not brought about any such change. On the contrary, Bashar has adopted a policy sometimes even more radical than that of his father, Hafiz al-Asad. Syria's conduct during the war with Iraq in 2003 illustrates Bashar's policy of brinksmanship.
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Endnotes
Note *: Eyal Zisser is a senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and a senior lecturer in the department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. He is author of Asad's Syria at a Crossroads (Hebrew, 1999); Lebanon: The Challenge Of Independence (London, 2000); Asad's Legacy - Syria In Transition (New York, 2000). He is also the author of "The Syrian Army: Between the Domestic and the External Fronts" in MERIA Journal Vol. 5 No.1. (March 2001). Back