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

Mehmet Osman Çati

Sosyoekonomi Journal, 2016, issue 24(27)

Abstract: This paper aims to enhance our understanding of 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.

Keywords: Economic Development; Foreign Policy; Socio-economic Needs; Resource Gap. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E60 F35 F52 F54 F63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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