TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rabinovich,Itamar
AU  - Valensi,Carmit
TI  - Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath 
SN  - 9780691193311
AV  - DS98.6 .R335 2021
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Stellvertreterkrieg
KW  - gnd
KW  - Aufstand
KW  - Innenpolitik
KW  - Konflikt
KW  - Ursache
KW  - Widerstand
KW  - Kriegsursache
KW  - Geopolitik
KW  - Einflussgröße
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aleppo
KW  - Armenians
KW  - Assyrians
KW  - Baath
KW  - Bashar al Asad
KW  - Bath
KW  - Clinton
KW  - Daesh
KW  - Damascus
KW  - Druze
KW  - Erdogan
KW  - FSA
KW  - Free Syrian Army
KW  - Geneva peace process
KW  - Hafez al Asad
KW  - Hama
KW  - Hezbollah
KW  - ISIL
KW  - ISIS
KW  - JTS
KW  - Kurds
KW  - Obama
KW  - PKK
KW  - Putin
KW  - Raqqah
KW  - SDF
KW  - Salafi
KW  - Sufi
KW  - Suleimani
KW  - Sunni
KW  - Syrian Democratic Forces
KW  - Syrian Liberation Front
KW  - Syrian opposition
KW  - Syrians refugees
KW  - Trump
KW  - UN
KW  - US strategy
KW  - United Nations
KW  - administration
KW  - al Qaeda
KW  - alawi
KW  - alawis
KW  - barrel bombs
KW  - caliphate
KW  - chemical weapons
KW  - dictator
KW  - dictatorship
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; SYRIAN REQUIEM --; Chapter 1. The Ba’th in Power, 1963–2011 --; Chapter 2. The Syrian Civil War and Crisis, 2011–18 --; Chapter 3. The Domestic Scene --; Chapter 4. The Regional Arena --; Chapter 5. International Actors --; Chapter 6. Syria 2019–20 --; Conclusion. From the Syrian Civil War to the Lingering Syrian Crisis --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our timeLeaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. Syrian Requiem analyses the causes and course of this bitter civil war, from its first spark in a peaceful Arab Spring protest to the tenuous victory of the Assad dictatorship, which has been reduced to a crisis-ridden vassal state with no prospect of political reform, national reconciliation, or economic reconstruction.Israel’s chief negotiator with Syria during the mid-1990s, Itamar Rabinovich brings unmatched expertise and insight to the politics of the Middle East. Drawing on more than two hundred specially conducted interviews with key players, Rabinovich and Carmit Valensi assess the roles of local, regional, and global interests in the war. Local sectarian divisions established the fault lines of the initial conflict, ultimately leading to the rise of the brutal Islamic State. However, Syria rapidly became the stage for proxy warfare between contending regional powers, including Israel, Turkey, and Iran. At the same time, while a war-weary United States attempted to reduce its military involvement in the Middle East, a resurgent Russia regained regional influence by supporting Syrian government forces. Telling the story of the war through its aftermath, Rabinovich and Valensi also examine the considerable potential for renewed conflict and the difficult policy choices facing the United States, Russia, and other powers.A compact and incisive history of one of the defining wars of our times, Syrian Requiem is a vivid and timely account of a conflict that continues to reverberate today
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691212616?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691212616
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691212616/original
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