Damascus Courts the West
Syrian Politics, 1989-1991

by Daniel Pipes
Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1991

An account of Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad's tentative turn toward the West after losing its superpower patron, and the challenges Damascus faces in the post-Cold War world.

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