Rami Ginat is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle East History, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of The Soviet Union and Egypt, 1945-1955 (London: 1993) and Egypt's Incomplete Revolution (London: 1997). He has published widely in various journals, including Middle Eastern Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Diplomacy and Statecraft.

"Ginat's well-documented study is the first to provide a first-rate analysis of the ideological and the political development of the doctrine of Arab neutralism in Syria, and to a lesser extent in Egypt, from World War II until the 1960s. Ginat disputes the common belief that Nasser was the first Arab leader to exercise neutralism, and examines the effects that Arab neutralism had on shaping Syria's foreign policy and its national identity. Using Arab, Indian, Soviet, Polish and Western primary sources, he places special emphasis on the interaction between Arab neutralism in Syria and Egypt, and other modes of neutralism in Third World countries such as India and Yugoslavia." -- Moshe Ma'oz, The Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Ginat provides a meticulously researched study of the intellectual and political development of Arab neutralism and the differences between Nehru's 'ideological/doctrinaire neutralism' and Nasser's 'positive neutralism' which informed Syrian policy in the 1950s. This excellent and scholarly work combines a history of ideas with a detailed and fascinating study of the development of Syria's domestic and foreign policy in the search for a viable socio-economic system and an independent voice in international affairs." -- Professor Margot Light, Department of International Relations, London School of Economic

• Introduction -- Neutralism in Retrospect: Definitions and Paradigms; Syrias Road to Independence: The Emergence of Pragmatic/Calculative Nationalist Neutralism; The Rise of 'Anti-Western Neutralism' in Post-Mandatory Syria; Neutralism in Practice: Syria and the Consolidation of the Arab-Asian Group; Communism, Syria, and Neutralist Trends; Syrias Rival Schools of Neutralism and the Road to Union; Nasserite 'Positive Neutralism' and the United Arab Republic; Conclusion -- The Rise of the Neo-Bath and the Gradual Demise of Neutralism; Appendix - Modes of Practised Arab Neutralism; Index.

Rami Ginat is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle East History, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of The Soviet Union and Egypt, 1945-1955 (London: 1993) and Egypt's Incomplete Revolution (London: 1997). He has published widely in various journals, including Middle Eastern Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Diplomacy and Statecraft.

"Ginat's well-documented study is the first to provide a first-rate analysis of the ideological and the political development of the doctrine of Arab neutralism in Syria, and to a lesser extent in Egypt, from World War II until the 1960s. Ginat disputes the common belief that Nasser was the first Arab leader to exercise neutralism, and examines the effects that Arab neutralism had on shaping Syria's foreign policy and its national identity. Using Arab, Indian, Soviet, Polish and Western primary sources, he places special emphasis on the interaction between Arab neutralism in Syria and Egypt, and other modes of neutralism in Third World countries such as India and Yugoslavia." -- Moshe Ma'oz, The Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Ginat provides a meticulously researched study of the intellectual and political development of Arab neutralism and the differences between Nehru's 'ideological/doctrinaire neutralism' and Nasser's 'positive neutralism' which informed Syrian policy in the 1950s. This excellent and scholarly work combines a history of ideas with a detailed and fascinating study of the development of Syria's domestic and foreign policy in the search for a viable socio-economic system and an independent voice in international affairs." -- Professor Margot Light, Department of International Relations, London School of Economic

• Introduction -- Neutralism in Retrospect: Definitions and Paradigms; Syrias Road to Independence: The Emergence of Pragmatic/Calculative Nationalist Neutralism; The Rise of 'Anti-Western Neutralism' in Post-Mandatory Syria; Neutralism in Practice: Syria and the Consolidation of the Arab-Asian Group; Communism, Syria, and Neutralist Trends; Syrias Rival Schools of Neutralism and the Road to Union; Nasserite 'Positive Neutralism' and the United Arab Republic; Conclusion -- The Rise of the Neo-Bath and the Gradual Demise of Neutralism; Appendix - Modes of Practised Arab Neutralism; Index.

Rami Ginat is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle East History, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of The Soviet Union and Egypt, 1945-1955 (London: 1993) and Egypt's Incomplete Revolution (London: 1997). He has published widely in various journals, including Middle Eastern Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Diplomacy and Statecraft.

"Ginat's well-documented study is the first to provide a first-rate analysis of the ideological and the political development of the doctrine of Arab neutralism in Syria, and to a lesser extent in Egypt, from World War II until the 1960s. Ginat disputes the common belief that Nasser was the first Arab leader to exercise neutralism, and examines the effects that Arab neutralism had on shaping Syria's foreign policy and its national identity. Using Arab, Indian, Soviet, Polish and Western primary sources, he places special emphasis on the interaction between Arab neutralism in Syria and Egypt, and other modes of neutralism in Third World countries such as India and Yugoslavia." -- Moshe Ma'oz, The Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Ginat provides a meticulously researched study of the intellectual and political development of Arab neutralism and the differences between Nehru's 'ideological/doctrinaire neutralism' and Nasser's 'positive neutralism' which informed Syrian policy in the 1950s. This excellent and scholarly work combines a history of ideas with a detailed and fascinating study of the development of Syria's domestic and foreign policy in the search for a viable socio-economic system and an independent voice in international affairs." -- Professor Margot Light, Department of International Relations, London School of Economic

• Introduction -- Neutralism in Retrospect: Definitions and Paradigms; Syrias Road to Independence: The Emergence of Pragmatic/Calculative Nationalist Neutralism; The Rise of 'Anti-Western Neutralism' in Post-Mandatory Syria; Neutralism in Practice: Syria and the Consolidation of the Arab-Asian Group; Communism, Syria, and Neutralist Trends; Syrias Rival Schools of Neutralism and the Road to Union; Nasserite 'Positive Neutralism' and the United Arab Republic; Conclusion -- The Rise of the Neo-Bath and the Gradual Demise of Neutralism; Appendix - Modes of Practised Arab Neutralism; Index.