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Published in: HomeMilitary intervention and SyriaFrom the Cold War onwards there is a long trail of misery stemming from military solutions to intricate situations...
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Published in: HomeThe dream of "managing militarization" in Syria
What should be the international approach to resolving the Syrian crisis, and does diplomacy or military aid to the...
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Published in: HomeSyria's crisis: a credible threat is what is needed
The escalation of regime violence is not a response to the rise of an armed opposition, but the reaction of the...
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Published in: 50.50Turmoil in Syria: failed “Arab spring” or sectarian nightmare?
Although inspired by the movements of the Arab spring, the protests in Syria have degenerated into increasingly...
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Published in: HomeThe United States and "atrocity prevention"
The formation of an official agency charged with helping Washington identify and address threats of atrocity around...
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Published in: HomeSyria, Iraq, and al-Qaida's opportunity
A new phase of violence in Iraq and the dynamics of the conflict in Syria provide fertile conditions for the...
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Published in: HomeSyria and Iraq: armies, politics, and the future
The shared experience of military repression and failure under Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the al-Assad dynasty in...
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Published in: HomeImages of our Syrian revolution: leaked in a losing gamble?
What a terrible coincidence. On the third of February 2012 on the first ever commemoration of the 1982 Hama...
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Published in: HomeSyria and the left
Is every uprising against dictatorship a civil war? If that is the case then it is the case in Egypt, in Yemen, in...
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Published in: HomeDoing ‘business’ with Syria.
For Israel, the opportunity to do business with Syria and break its alliance with Iran is more valuable than the...
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Published in: openSecuritySyria's crisis: weapons vs negotiations
A strong momentum is building for armed intervention in Syria, either by channelling arms to Syria's rebels or...
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Published in: HomeSyria, an exceptional despotism
Many authoritarian regimes - South Africa, Chile, Poland - have ceded power to the domestic opposition through a...
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Published in: HomeDamascus: beneath the façade
The Syrian capital at first sight offers little sign of the year-long conflict tearing much of the country apart....
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Published in: HomeChina and Syria: a question of responsibility
Beijing's refusal to support intervention in Syria in support of the rebels is founded on a mix of strategic...
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Published in: HomeThe Palestine question, and the Arab answer
The Palestinians’ inability to claim their right has been reinforced by long-term failures of thinking and strategy...
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Published in: HomeThe Saudi-Syria-Iran-Israel-Palestine nexus
The toxins of the Israel-Palestine conflict continue to spill into a region that with difficulty and with setbacks...
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Published in: HomeSyria, morality and geopolitics
An accurate reading of the Syrian crisis must take into account the political interests and motives of leading...
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Published in: HomeSyria's revolution, a year on
A year of violent repression and suffering leaves Syria's people as far as ever from achieving the freedom millions...
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Published in: HomeSaudi Arabia and Syria: logic of dictators
Saudi Arabia's support for the armed opposition in Syria reflects the way that the Arab spring is now hostage to...
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Published in: openSecurityLimited military intervention in Syria: how to rescue the Responsibility to Protect doctrine from permanent demise
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