| Superpowers and Client States in the Middle East: The Imbalance of Influence Contributor(s): Efrat, Moshe (Editor), Bercovitch, Jacob (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138653047 ISBN-13: 9781138653047 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Social Science | Regional Studies - Business & Economics | Consumer Behavior - General |
| Dewey: 327.095 |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: War and Security in the Middle E |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |