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Syria is constantly located in the center of the chaotic Middle Eastern politics throughout years of the Cold War and it had an important regional role. By the end of the Cold War, Syria began to lose power politically and economically in its region. Bashar Assad taking over the power from his father in June 2000 has been seen as an important opportunity to the integration of Syria with world system. Whereas this expections disappeared inside the short period. In particular since the beginning of the second Iraqi operation of the US, Syria has been faced with plenty of internal and external threats. In this term Syrian President Bashar Assad has tried both to balance between threats and opportunities and to hold onto power.

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