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Although the military dimension has figured prominently in Soviet-Syrian relations from their very inception, it is only during the Asad era that it has come to predominate so overwhelmingly all other aspects of the bilateral relationship; until then, the military dimension was always balanced by corresponding activity in the economic sphere, as evidenced, for example, by the signing of the 1957 large-scale economic agreement in the wake of the 1955 and 1956 arms deals. Moreover, under the left-wing regime of 1966–70, the centre of gravity in Soviet-Syrian relations lay in the economic, rather than the military sphere.
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The analysis of Syria’s economic predicament draws largely on E. Kanovsky, What’s Behind Syria’s Current Economic Problems? (Tel Aviv: The Dayan Centre, 1985).
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Karsh, E. (1991). The Economics of Soviet Policy towards Syria. In: Soviet Policy towards Syria since 1970. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11482-5_4
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