Playing with fire: The Soviet-Syrian-Israeli triangle, 1965-1967 Guy Laron is a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University's History Department. He has recently submitted a dissertation on Israeli-Egyptian relations in the 1950s and is now revising it into a book manuscript tentatively titled: ‘Crossroad Suez: Israel, Egypt and the Superpowers in the Run Up to the Suez Crisis, 1952-1956’. View all notes

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Setting out to assess Soviet policy toward Syria and Israel in the two years that preceded the Six Day War, this article argues that the Soviets were trying to implement a policy of détente in the Middle East. Therefore, they were wary of war between Israel and Syria and did their best, albeit clumsily at times, to prevent it from erupting. Their policy moved in cross-purposes to Syrian needs and little by little they lost control over their ally. This story should be read against the backdrop of the rebellion of radical regimes in the Third World against Soviet détente policy, thus emphasizing the ability of actors in the periphery of the Cold War to undermine superpower designs.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682740902871869