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

Year 2016, Volume: 24 Issue: 27, 183 - 210, 22.01.2016

Mehmet Çatı

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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