Syria: The Costs of the Palestinian Question

Latif Wahid

Chapter 6 in Military Expenditure and Economic Growth in the Middle East, 2009, pp 107-125 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Similarly to many other artificially created states of the Middle East, present-day Syria was carved out of the Ottoman Empire by France and Britain at the end of the First World War. Syria has always been on the route of trade between the West and East. Nonetheless, until the end of the Second World War, there had never been an independent Syrian state. In the past, the area currently known as Syria was part of the Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Roman, Arab, Mameluke, Ottoman and French empires. The word Syria, which was the Greek and Roman name for the province in that area, was widely known by the Arabs as Sham (Hopwood 1988).

Keywords: Middle East; Arab Country; Capita Growth; Military Expenditure; Military Spending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250765_6

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