This book examines the nature of Soviet policy towards Syria during the last two decades, assessing both Moscow's objectives, and the means to achieving those objectives. While pointing to the fundamental difference between the worldview and tactics of Mikhail Gorbachev and those of his predecessors, the study argues that the overriding concern of Soviet policy towards Syria from Brezhnev to Gorbachev has remained essentially unchanged: namely, the attainment and preservation of regional stability.
- ISBN10 0333522974
- ISBN13 9780333522974
- Publish Date April 1991 (first published 1 January 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 June 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English