تطور السياسة الخارجية الصينية تجاه سوريا
Date
2015-03-01
Authors
عطاالله حنا جريس القسيس
Atallah Hanna Jeries Alkasis
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Publisher
AL-Quds University
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جامعة القدس
Abstract
This study focuses on Chinese foreign policy towards Syria. It tries to explore the reasons
and objectives of this policy, in the context of the development of China’s politics towards
the Middle East. This study also focuses on the changes which have taken place in the
Chinese foreign policy after the cold war. The cold war has produced different effects on
the world, such as the change in the international system from a bi-polar system to a
unipolar system led by the United States, and the transition from military conflict to an
economic conflict. This study examines as well Chinese foreign policy towards Syria
during the since before the cold war until now.
The researcher is interested in the subject of the study because of the growing role of China
as one of the influential countries in global decision-making. The importance of the study
emanates from the importance of China and its economic and military strength in the
world. The theme of the study is to observe the change in Chinese foreign policy, and to
find out if this change is strategic or just tactical.
The study tries to achieve a number of goals; the most important one is identifying the
characteristics of China's foreign policy in general during the period between 1949 and
2014, and towards Syria in particular during the same period. The researcher used the
descriptive and historical approaches to accomplish his objective. The research results
indicate that the shift in Chinese foreign policy during the years of the Arab Spring is just
tactical. China’s intervention in the Syrian crisis is inseparable from achieving its
objectives. China does not care whether the Syrian regime stays or goes as long as it
(China) accomplishes its interests specially that it is on the front line of defense for a
number of allied states such as Iran and Federal Russia. China intervened in the Syrian
crises for a variety of reasons that determine its relations with other countries such as the
USA. Needless to say, that China rejects the control of the USA on the energy resources in
deferent part of the world.
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الدراسات الاقليمية , Regional Studies