Fred H. Lawson

Bio:

Fred H. Lawson, a contributing editor of this magazine and James Irvine professor of government at Mills College is author of Why Syria Goes to War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996).

Articles by this Author


Private Capital and the State in Contemporary Syria	Throughout the late 1980s, Syria’s economy suffered persistent difficulties. Shortages of imported machinery and spare parts led to underproduction and quality control breakdowns in the country’s larger factories. External...	MER203
Washington Watch	House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Lee Hamilton (D-IN) offered the first criticism by a Washington insider of the Bush administration’s handling of the Gulf crisis when, on September 18, 1990, he blamed Assistant Secretary of State for...	MER168
Karsh, The Soviet Union and Syria	*Efraim Karsh, The Soviet Union and Syria: The Asad Years* (London: Routledge, 1988.)**	MER163
US-Arab Economic Trends in the Reagan Period	US economic relations with the Arab states have entered a new phase in the last two years, one that reproduces many of the features that characterized the end of the Carter administration. US exports to the region rose by about 13 percent from...	MER155
Nonneman, Iraq, the Gulf States and the War	*Gerd Nonneman, Iraq, the Gulf States and the War* (London: Ithaca Press, 1986).**	MER148
Peterson, Defending Arabia	*J. E. Peterson, Defending Arabia* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986).**	MER148