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The battle for Syria : international rivalry in the new Middle East /
The Battle for Syria explores the profound influence of the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar on Syria's bloody conflict. Updated with two new chapters, this definitive account of the ongoing crisis shows how the perceived decline of American power in the Middle East...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | New edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- The wild card: Syria's war in the age of Trump
- Conquest: Defeat for ISIS, Afrin and the rebels
- Rebuilding without reconciling
- Conclusion : The war that everyone lost.