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UNINA9911104272903321 |
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Ehteshami Anoushiravan |
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Titolo |
Syria and Iran : middle powers in a penetrated regional system / / Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Raymond A. Hinnebusch |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997 |
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1-85567-234-0 |
1-134-73020-9 |
1-138-88399-9 |
1-282-77813-7 |
9786612778131 |
1-134-73021-7 |
0-203-21378-5 |
9780203213780 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Syria History 20th century |
Syria Foreign relations |
Iran Foreign relations 1979-1997 |
Syria Politics and government |
Iran Politics and government 1979-1997 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Middle East international relations: a conceptual framework; The foreign policy of Iran; The foreign policy of Syria; The Syrian-Iranian alliance and the struggle for the Middle East; The Shi'a and the struggle for Lebanon; Syria, Iran and the Arab-Israeli peace process; Conclusions: regional middle powers in a penetrated regional system; Appendix: chronology of Syrian-Iranian relations; Bibliography; Index |
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It has been the dominant view that both Syria in the 1980's and Iran today have acted as rogue states in the Middle East threatening to |
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upset the stability of the region. In this innovative new study, Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Raymond Hinnebusch show that these two countries have in fact acted in a rational fashion pursuing the aim of containing Western influence. This book demonstrates how Syrian foreign policy resembles the ""rational actor"" model and Iran's rational factions in government guide its diplomacy. Syria and Iran's foreign policies are shown to be conventional ones, of ""real... |
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UNINA9911108414503321 |
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Autore |
Webb Ruth <1963-> |
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Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice / / Ruth Webb |
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2009 |
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1-317-14536-4 |
1-315-57899-9 |
1-317-14535-6 |
1-282-05433-3 |
9786612054334 |
0-7546-9330-9 |
9781315578996 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Ekphrasis |
Rhetoric, Ancient |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Contexts of Ekphrasis; 2. Learning Ekphrasis: The Progymnasmata; 3. The Subjects of Ekphrasis; 4. Enargeia: Making Absent Things Present; 5. Phantasia: Memory, Imagination and the Gallery of the Mind; 6. Ekphrasis and the Art of Persuasion; 7. The Poetics of Ekphrasis: Fiction, Illusion and Meta- |
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ekphrasis; Conclusion; Appendix A: Translations; Appendix B: Subjects for Ekphrasis; Bibliography; Index |
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This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its cultural context, emphasising the importance of the visual imagination in ancient responses to rhetoric, poetry and historiography. By linking the theoretical writings on ekphrasis with ancient theories of imagination and emotion and language, she brings out the persuasive and emotive function of vivid languag |
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