Rif`at Al-Asad's PhD dissertation

Rif`at Al-Asad claimed that he had a PhD in political science from Moscow.  I have a copy of the dissertation (published in a book in Arabic in Syria years ago--it is now a collector's item).  I have told the story before but it cracks me up every time I think about it or when I see the book on the shelf here: in his footnotes, he cites a book published by Johns Hopkins University Press, so he listed the source as Mr. Johns Hopkins (as the author of the book) and then the title.