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3. Imagining an “Axis of Resistance”: The PFLP’s Foreign Policy in the Mid-1980s

verfasst von : Francesco Saverio Leopardi

Erschienen in: The Palestinian Left and Its Decline

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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This chapter covers the same years addressed in the previous one but focuses on the regional and international projection of the PFLP’s policies. The formation of an opposition coalition on the Palestinian level corresponded to a realignment along Syrian confrontational positions on the regional one. Internationally, the identification of the USSR as privileged partner responded to the need to counterbalance the US increasing popularity among the PLO leaders. This chapter explains the reasons behind the PFLP’s realignment with Syria, illustrates the role of ideology in supporting such shift and assesses the impact of contradictions between PFLP and Syrian interests. In this process, this chapter underlines the role of regional policies in fostering policy fluctuation as the PFLP shifted from alignment with Damascus to military confrontation with its Palestinian proxies. Moreover, this chapter explores the PFLP’s attempt to forge closer ties with the USSR. What is stressed is the impossibility of building a strategic relationship due to long-standing divergences, the historical Soviet posture towards the Palestinian national movement and Moscow’s new orientations under Gorbachev. This further undermined the credibility of the PFLP’s foreign policies already seriously questioned by Damascus hegemonic ambitions.

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Titel: Imagining an “Axis of Resistance”: The PFLP’s Foreign Policy in the Mid-1980s
verfasst von: Francesco Saverio Leopardi
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Buch: The Palestinian Left and Its Decline
Print ISBN: 978-981-15-4338-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-4339-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4339-5_3

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