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Power and Paranoia in Syria-Iraq Relations - The Impact of Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussain (Hardcover)
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Power and Paranoia in Syria-Iraq Relations - The Impact of Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussain (Hardcover)
Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
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This book examines the perplexing twists and turns in Syria-Iraq
relations which since the establishment of modern Syria and Iraq
after the First World War have zigzagged between cooperation and
hostility countless times. It questions why both countries switched
regional and international alliances, but never formed one of their
own, and assesses the role played by structural forces such as
geopolitics, ideology, and regime survival. It also argues that a
key factor was the individual personalities - the agency role - of
Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussain, both of whom had a monopoly of
power, similar ambitions and leadership styles, and great mistrust
of each other, with the result that they clashed. It goes on to
show how both were caught between commitment to pan-Arabism and the
imperative for regime survival, and how this led them both to
weaken pan-Arabism instead and construct sectarian polarisation to
ensure regime survival. The book concludes that their ruthless
fight left a heavy legacy where in both countries regime survival
overshadowed state consolidation and nation-building, with both
countries divided into smaller communities of faiths and
ethnicities at war with each other.
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