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In the lion's den : an eyewitness account of Washington's battle with Syria / Andrew Tabler.
Van Pelt Library E183.8.S95 T33 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tabler, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--Syria.
- United States.
- Syria--Foreign relations--United States.
- Syria.
- Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-.
- Bush, George W.
- Assad, Bashar, 1965-.
- Assad, Bashar.
- Tabler, Andrew.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 260 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books : [Distributed by IPG], [2011]
- Summary:
- A major violator of human rights, Syria has long been an unrelenting obstacle to negotiating peace and reining in the Islamic Republic of Iran. But only after 9/11 and Damascus's staunch opposition to the War in Iraq did the Us government exert its power in an unannounced campaign to pressure the Assad regime into submission.
- Cofounder of Syria's first English-language magazine and the only Western journalist based in Damascus during this entire period, author Andrew Tabler was both a witness to and participant in the events of this cold war. Not only was he watched and censored, but the Syrian govern ment courted him in an attempt to influence his stories to the international community. He gained unique access to the upper echelons of power like no other journalist before him.
- A dramatic personal chronicle of an American journalist caught between President Bashar al Assad and Us Middle East policy, In the Lion's Den provides a rare glimpse into the machinations of one of the world's most baffling political systems, examining what has gone wrong and how Washington should deal with this volatile Middle Eastern nation. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Arab world's twilight zone
- The great unraveling
- Paradise lost
- Pressure yields results
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend
- No voice louder than the cry of battle
- Fire in the orchard
- Weathering the storm
- Epilogue : the expectations gap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781569768433
- 1569768439
- OCLC:
- 707327930
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