LOCAL REFLECTION OF GLOBAL STREAMS: SYRIA AND LEBANON ON THE IDEOLOGICAL FRONTIER (THE BEGINNING OF THE 60TH OF THE 20TH CENTURY)

Abstract

Social and political processes in Syria and Lebanon analyzes on the material of archival documents through the prism of global and regional ideological confrontation. On the background of the world bipolar system in the first half of the 1960s the most powerful ideological currents, combining Arab nationalism and socialist ideas, were most clearly manifested in the Middle East. On a broader scale, these ideological currents have found their short-term expression within the framework of the Non-Aligned Movement. By the end of the 1960s, the ideas of Arab socialism had ceased to be perceived as competitive in a system of bipolar global confrontation. Nevertheless, the important historical processes of the early 1960s cannot be analyzed without taking into account that powerful factor in the Middle East development.

Keywords

• syria
• lebanon
• egypt
• nasserism
• baathism
• ideology
• bipolar system