Author: Fouad Ajami, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
May/June 2009
Foreign Affairs
As Washington considers a rapprochement with Bashar al-Assad's Syria, Itamar Rabinovich's commanding new book makes clear that change will not come quickly or easily -- and, if the past is any indication, it may not come at all.
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