ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail superpower-client relations in the Middle East. The Middle East, with its protracted and seemingly insoluble conflict and complex patterns of loyalty and hostility, is the ideal setting for the study of such relationships. Using the USSR and Syria, and the USA and Israel as case studies, this book illuminates the extent of superpower influence on client states but also the real constraints on their exercise of that influence. In analysing specific contexts over this period, the authors advance that tension between goals and constraints often favours the client state and that superpower relations are not those of dominance and subordination but bargaining relations in which clients have great leverage.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|46 pages
In search of a theoretical framework
part II|86 pages
The case of US-Israel relations
part III|121 pages
The case of Soviet-Syrian relations
chapter 8|19 pages
The Soviet Union and the Syrian military-economic dimension
part IV|4 pages
Conclusion