عنوان

Syria's regional alignment: Explaining Syrian foreign policy 1970-2010

شماره

TL47939

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Syria's regional alignment: Explaining Syrian foreign policy 1970-2010

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ghaidaa Hetou

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014

نام خاص و کميت اثر

192

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-28297-9

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Graduate School - New Brunswick

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick

امتياز متن

2014

متن يادداشت

What explains alignment behavior in Syrian foreign policy? Structural realists argue that, like all states, authoritarian states pursue their national interests in an anarchic world by balancing power or threats, informed by the distribution of material capabilities. Hence alliance choices, according to structural realists, are driven, necessarily, by regional threat assessments. Weak states in such an anarchic system, lacking ability to balance, would bandwagon with the powerful state. Liberals argue that domestic characters of states influence foreign policy behavior. Non-democratic states lack democratic institutions, which erodes the concept of "national interest". Liberals therefore argue that authoritarian states' foreign policies are irrational, unpredictable and driven by ideology geared solely towards regime survival. This dissertation motivates a resolution to this puzzle by arguing that Syria's state national interest was defined through a foreign policy that dealt with the domestic distributional dilemma, and simultaneously sought external security and regime survival. The alignment choices in Syrian foreign policy are best explained through a neoclassical realist approach that combines state and systemic level variables. Decision-making process analysis of the political relevant elite in Syria will ground the dynamic that links state and systemic factors in a coherent rational foreign policy. This project worked towards testing the neo-classical realist theory of foreign policy in the Syrian case, and performing initial plausibility checks by examining Syrian foreign policy alignment choices between 1970 and 2010 through a number of case studies. Liberals fail to explain Syrian foreign policy behavior during the period in question, while neoclassical realism approach sheds more light on Syria's foreign policy behavior in general, and alignment choices in particular. Methodologically, this project employs the historical analysis approach. Process tracing, in each case study, draws on elite interviews, local and regional press accounts, economic databases, military disputes data sets, memoirs, and U.S. National Security archives.

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Alignment;Allies;Arab states.;Foreign policy;Middle east;Security;Syria

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hopkins, Patricia

تقسيم فرعي

Graduate School - New Brunswick

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick

شماره بازیابی

1617960029; 3641795

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y