Commanding Syria: Basher Al-Asad and the First Years in Power

by Eyal Zisser

When Basher al-Asad became President of Syria in June 2000, he had a tough act to follow. A quiet, unassuming opthalmologist, trained in Britain, young Asad was successor to his dynamic, wily father Hafiz, who had consolidated power in his ethnically diverse and politically restive state through personal charisma, brute force and political balancing acts. Now, some years after Basher's succession and with mounting international pressure for political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845111532
• ISBN13: 9781845111533
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"