This volume is one in a continuing series of books now being prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies-Area Handbook Program. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Particular attention is devoted to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and the issues on which they ar divided, the nature and extent of their involvement with national institutions, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order. Syria, Handbooks. (jes).

General study of Syrian Arab Republic - covers historical and geographical aspects, demographic aspects and social structures, tradition, living conditions, education, cultural factors, religion, health services, the government system, foreign policy, mass media, the economic structure, agriculture, industry, labour relations, labour force, trade unions, trade, economic relations, etc. Bibliography pp. 383 to 392, maps and statistical tables.

Syria Country Study Guide - Strategic Informtion and Developments Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments