Rejecting conventional explanations for Syrian foreign policy, which emphasize the personalities and attitudes of leaders, cultural factors peculiar to Arab societies, or the machinations of the great powers, Fred H. Lawson describes key shifts in Damascus's response to regional…
Syria has always played a pivotal role in Middle Eastern affairs, but most Westerners have never had a very clear understanding of the prevailing conditions there. The Islamic Struggle in Syria is a pioneering work that seeks to illuminate some important aspects on contemporary …
"Over much of its rule, the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor, Bashar al-Asad, used violence on a massive scale, deploying disproportionate physical and destructive force to silence its critics and opponents. Indeed, the regime, as constituted under the al-Asads, …
Von Kaiser Vespasian in geheimer Mission in die Provinz Syrien entsandt, gerät Marcus Didius Falco, Privatermittler mit unbefriedigender Auftragslage, begleitet von seiner ebenso schönen wie kapriziösen Gefährtin Helena, in lebensgefährliche Abenteuer.
