Inter-Arab alliances : regime security and Jordanian foreign policy /

Ryan examines the remarkably stable Jordan as a microcosm of the region's politics, and traces the last four decades of Jordanian foreign policy in an attempt to better understand what seems like chaos.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan, Curtis R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2009.
Series:Governance and international relations in the Middle East.
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Table of Contents:
  • Regime security, alliances, and inter-Arab politics
  • Security dilemmas in Arab politics
  • Ideology and political economy in inter-Arab alliances
  • The case studies and Jordanian policy in context
  • Jordan and the October War coalition
  • The Jordanian alliance with Syria
  • The Jordanian alliance with Iraq
  • Jordan and the Arab Cooperation Council
  • Jordan and the first U.S.-Iraq War
  • Beyond Arab alliances? : Jordan's peace with Israel
  • Ending the Jordanian-Syrian Cold War
  • Jordan and the second U.S.-Iraq War
  • Regime security and shifting Arab alliances.