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Syria under Asad, 1970–78: The Centres of Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

A. I. Dawisha
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NO OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY COULD MATCH THE TURBULENT post-independence history that Syria has experienced. Gaining its independence from France in April 1946, Syria moved uncertainly through the bewildering web of inter-Arab politics until the first military coup in March 1949 propelled it towards the long period of instability that was to follow. Indeed, the coup of November 1970, popularly known as the ‘Corrective Movement’, which installed the Asad regime in power constituted the twenty-first change of government in the twenty-four years of the country's independence. This persistent political turmoil, particularly during the fifties and sixties, contrasts sharply with the stability that Syria enjoyed in the first eight years of this decade.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1978 , pp. 341 - 354
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1978

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