The battle for Syria international rivalry in the new Middle East
This work provides an analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war.
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Syria and the Middle East on the eve of civil war
- The Arab Spring comes to Syria
- Assad must stand aside? The international community's ambivalent response
- International institutions and the slide to war
- A legitimate representative? Supporting and subverting Syria's political opposition
- 'Arm the rebels!' Backing the armed opposition
- To the hilt : Assad's allies dig in
- No red lines : the question of western military intervention
- Descent into chaos : stalemate and the rise of ISIS
- Enter Russia : Putin raises the stakes
- Conclusion : the war that everyone lost.