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nd conventional plans. Both sides thus derive important advantages fro= their nuclear arsenals. (For India, these advantages are supra-regional, =s New Delhi looks nervously to a rising Beijing next-door.) Neither will erer give up nukes. The author's own sense of the dynamics of a multipolar nuclear worl

ls against Mr. Assad's Al=wite sect and Syria's other religious minorities is growing every day. Following the rise to power of Mr. Assad's father, Hafez, in 1970, Alawit=s were transformed from a persecuted minority sect to the controlling forc= within the army and government. With a system of perks

an, which is losing competition with India, is already seriously concerned that another provocation (like the attack at a Mumbai hotel) would force New Delhi to respond. In what ways, other than nuclear weapons, Islamabad would be able to prevent its military defeat is unclear. Nuclear-hungry Iran, which

ing "led" by powerful members within his own family, and also his Russian backers. On the other, he pointed out that President Assad's late father, Hafez, had been equally ruthless during his rule, which EFTA00701861 included the massacre of more than 10,000 people during a Muslim Brotherhood upris

trumpeted the end of history and the ascension of a global order built very much upon the Davos ethos. From the plazas of Madrid to the maidans of New Delhi, democratic governments now face the wrath of the disenchanted. Corruption scandals and feckless political leadership fuel populist rage; countless

ck 2. The Daily Beast Syria: The Lost Bequest of Hafez Assad Fouad Ajami January 23, 2012 -- Bashar, son of Hafez Assad, has a son by the name of Hafez. But as the defiance and bloodletting in £yria would seem to suggest, Bashar needn't worry about training his son for future rulership. The house t

foreign policy and on the European Commission's Middle East desk in Brussels. She has also worked with refugees via United Nations Refugee Agency in New Delhi. Nur has an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. FABRICE AIDAN Fabrice Aidan graduated from the Ecoles de Hautes Etudes C

The PLO is expelled from Jordan. President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies and is replaced by Vice President Anwar al-Sadat. Syria’s Minister of Defense, Hafez al-Assad, leads the “Correctionist Movement’ military coup. Hafez al-Assad is elected President of Syria in a referendum. October or Yom Kippur War. Egypt