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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="book-review" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">20339</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2018-18-4-984-987</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>REVIEWS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>РЕЦЕНЗИИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>评论</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject></subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Book Review: Prifti, B. (2017). US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Case for Continuity. Palgrave Macmillan, 232 p</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Рецензия на монографию: Prifti B. US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Case for Continuity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 232 p</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Khlopov</surname><given-names>Oleg Anatolyevich</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Хлопов</surname><given-names>Олег Анатольевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor of the Chair of American Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">кандидат политических наук, доцент кафедры американских исследований факультета мировой политики и зарубежного регионоведения Российского государственного гуманитарного университета</bio><email>univer619@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Russian State University for the Humanities</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский государственный гуманитарный университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Grand Strategy and Syrian Crisis: Coalition Wars of the Great and Rising Powers</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Большая стратегия (Grand Strategy) и сирийский кризис: коалиционные войны великих и восходящих держав</issue-title><fpage>984</fpage><lpage>987</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2019-01-15"><day>15</day><month>01</month><year>2019</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2018, Khlopov O.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2018, Хлопов О.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2018</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Khlopov O.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Хлопов О.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/20339">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/20339</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"> </abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"> </trans-abstract></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Layne, C. 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