Economic Development and Foreign Policy, The Case of Syria 1949-1954

Authors : Mehmet Çati

Pages : 183-210

Doi:10.17233/se.11612

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Publication Date : 2016-01-22

Article Type : Other

Abstract :This paper aims to enhance our understanding the relationship between economic development and foreign policy in Syria in the post-independence period. In this endeavour, Syria has been taken as a state of the global South that was bound to be preoccupied with its condition of underdevelopment, dependence, vulnerability and permeability. Adopting a political economy approach to examine a period of instability marked by three military coups, this paper presents socioeconomic needs of the country as a source of foreign policy and identifies the acquisition of external resources as a key foreign policy objective.
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