Book contents
- Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa
- Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1 Political Ideology and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the Middle East and North Africa
- 2 Political Islam and Sunni Ideology
- 3 Political Islam and Shia Ideology
- 4 Secularist Leaders in the Levant
- 5 Armed Nonstate Actors’ Foreign Policy
- 6 Leaders, Foreign Policy Decision-Making, and International Relations
- 7 Policy Implications and Future Research
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Secularist Leaders in the Levant
Syrian, Israeli, and Lebanese Leadership
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2023
- Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa
- Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1 Political Ideology and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the Middle East and North Africa
- 2 Political Islam and Sunni Ideology
- 3 Political Islam and Shia Ideology
- 4 Secularist Leaders in the Levant
- 5 Armed Nonstate Actors’ Foreign Policy
- 6 Leaders, Foreign Policy Decision-Making, and International Relations
- 7 Policy Implications and Future Research
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The fourth chapter gives a succinct historical description of the secular nationalist ideologies in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel and compares the secular political movements in these countries as they have different regime types and political cultures. The chapter also provides brief biographical accounts of the three top executive leaders from each country: Bashar al-Assad, Saad al-Hariri, and Benjamin Netanyahu. The authors also present and compare the operational code results of the leaders and deliberate on what kind of generic foreign policy behavior and strategies we should expect from secular nationalist leaders. The chapter also sheds light on what these results and strategies mean for MENA politics and for the international relations discipline.
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- Leaders in the Middle East and North AfricaHow Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy, pp. 76 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023