The Impact of National Patterns on Foreign Policy in Syria and Jordan

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons grade: 17 University of Tubingen (Institut für Politikwissenschaft) course: Vergleichende Analyse politischer Systeme im Vorderen Orient language: English abstract: The foreign policy of many states in the Middle East recently shows a tendency towards Western orientation. Since the monarchies of the region like the Gulf monarchies or Jordan have more in common with Western states than with radical Arab states their foreign policy relations have always been more Western-orientated than those of other states in the Middle East. However even some of the non-monarchical states such as Syria now pursue a policy of openness to the rest of the world. This leads to a similar Western-orientation in Syria and Jordan which is caused by various national patterns.