Syria and Lebanon

ISBN: 9781784532338 出版年：2013 页码：256 Taku Osoegawa Bloomsbury Publishing

The so-called 'Cedar Revolution' in Lebanon, triggered by the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005, brought to an end three decades of Syrian military presence in the country. Here, Taku Osoegawa challenges the commonly-held claim that Lebanon and its leadepuppets of the Syrian regime during the thirty years characterised as Lebanon under Syrian hegemony. Furthermore, by examining Lebanon's relations with Syria from the establishment of tto the current violence in Syria, Osoegawa concludes that the Lebanese government has had its own reasons for aligniAs the Lebanese-Syrian relationship has had an enormous impact on the international relations of the Middle East, this book is essential reading for those interested in the contemporary regional dynamics.