The Battle for Syria : International Rivalry in the New Middle East / Christopher Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Christopher, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Syria--History--Civil War, 2011-.

Syria.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

New Edition, Revised and Updated

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war“One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published.”—Patrick Cockburn, Independent Syria’s brutal, long-lasting civil war is widely viewed as a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the fray. But in this book Christopher Phillips shows the crucial roles that were played by the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar in Syria’s war right from the start. Phillips untangles the international influences on the tragic conflict and illuminates the West’s strategy against ISIS, the decline of U.S. power in the region, and much more. Originally published in 2016, the book has been updated with two new chapters.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the revised and updated edition

Acknowledgements

Key actors and abbreviations

Map of Syria

Introduction

Chapter One. Syria and the Middle East on the eve of civil war

Chapter Two. The Arab Spring comes to Syria

Chapter Three. Assad must stand aside? The international community’s ambivalent response

Chapter Four. International institutions and the slide to war

Chapter Five. A legitimate representative? Supporting and subverting Syria’s political opposition

Chapter Six. ‘Arm the rebels!’ Backing the armed opposition

Chapter Seven. To the hilt: Assad’s allies dig in

Chapter Eight. No red lines: The question of Western military intervention

Chapter Nine. Descent into chaos: Stalemate and the rise of ISIS

Chapter Ten. Enter Russia: Putin raises the stakes

Chapter Eleven. The wild card: Syria’s war in the age of Trump

Chapter Twelve. Conquest: Defeat for ISIS, Afrin and the rebels

Chapter Thirteen. Rebuilding without reconciling

Conclusion: The war that everyone lost

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)

ISBN:

0-300-26203-5

OCLC:

1245662391