Frontline Syria: From Revolution to Proxy War
Autor David L. Phillipsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780755602568
ISBN-10: 0755602560
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0755602560
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Identifies the key turning points in the history of the Syria conflict that are often overlooked to explain how we got where we are
Notă biografică
David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Human Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He served as a Senior Adviser and Foreign Affairs Expert to the US Department of State during the administrations of Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. Phillips also served as a Senior Adviser to the UN Secretariat. He was a Visiting Scholar with Harvard University's Center for Middle East Studies and worked with the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also testified on regional issues before the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, the British House of Commons, the French Senate and the European Parliament.
Cuprins
Abbreviations and AcronymsGlossary of PersonalitiesTimeline of Critical EventsAbout the AuthorIntroductionPart I: Legacy of Repression1.Hama Rules2.The Damascus Spring3.Cradle of the RevolutionPart II: Radicalization4.The Free Syrian Army5.Security Assistance6.Displacement Crisis7.The Geneva Peace ProcessPart III: International Stakeholders8.Russia9.The Shiite Crescent10.TurkeyPart IV: Minorities and Women11.Kurds12.Christians and Armenians13.Women14.AlawitesPart V: Grinding War15.Idlib16.Diminished America17.UN Mediation18.BetrayalEpilogueAnnex
Recenzii
The Syrian war will go down as the tragedy of a generation, and will have repercussions in the region for years to come. How did a failed revolution on the heels of the Arab Spring turn to one of the bloodiest conflicts of the century? And how could the international community have stood by with so little regard from human life? David Phillips, one of the most respected experts in the field, was a first-hand witness, speaking to many of the regional actors in his role as a conflict analyst. In this important book, he unravels the conflict from ground zero. An urgent read for anyone who wants to understand how and why we failed Syria.
A candid, well-informed 'after action report' on how the Arab Spring turned to winter in Syria and the consequences of failed international diplomacy.
In this recounting of the Syrian civil war, David Phillips recalls the history of repression in Syria and explains how the peaceful protest movement in 2011 metastasized into a violent insurgency dominated by militants and extremists. He is not sparing in his criticism of American mistakes either. This book also presents a detailed, sympathetic view of the aspirations of Syrians themselves, most notably Kurds, Christians, the displaced, and Syrian women who will have a vital role in future Syrian reconciliation.
While the full toll of human suffering may never be known, the people of Syria and the world must know more about one of the most horrifying outgrowths of the Arab Spring. Phillips provides an informed and compassionate survey of the Syrian civil war and the international meddling that has exacerbated the disaster.
Frontline Syria is truly a 'must-read' for any student of the catastrophe that is modern Syria...as well as the bipartisan fecklessness of American foreign policy. With an intense combination of scholarly rigor and the objective compassion that comes from his own personal experiences, David Phillips narrates the terrifying descent of Syria from a stable if prosaic backwater to that of a Hobbesian state of nature. From the 'Red Lines' that weren't to the abandonment of its Kurdish allies, his searing insights and conclusions also provide jarring punctuation for the United States' declining moral and political leadership, and the implications of this tragic abdication for the Middle East and beyond.
Syria's once promising revolution failed, plunging the country into chaos and anarchy. Drawing on his decades of experience as an American diplomat, peacemaker and discreet back-channel, David Phillips explores what went wrong. While many share the blame, he finds particular fault in the US government's response for making promises it never intended to keep, leaving Syrian activists to die, and thereby opening the gates of Hell to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history.
A candid, well-informed 'after action report' on how the Arab Spring turned to winter in Syria and the consequences of failed international diplomacy.
In this recounting of the Syrian civil war, David Phillips recalls the history of repression in Syria and explains how the peaceful protest movement in 2011 metastasized into a violent insurgency dominated by militants and extremists. He is not sparing in his criticism of American mistakes either. This book also presents a detailed, sympathetic view of the aspirations of Syrians themselves, most notably Kurds, Christians, the displaced, and Syrian women who will have a vital role in future Syrian reconciliation.
While the full toll of human suffering may never be known, the people of Syria and the world must know more about one of the most horrifying outgrowths of the Arab Spring. Phillips provides an informed and compassionate survey of the Syrian civil war and the international meddling that has exacerbated the disaster.
Frontline Syria is truly a 'must-read' for any student of the catastrophe that is modern Syria...as well as the bipartisan fecklessness of American foreign policy. With an intense combination of scholarly rigor and the objective compassion that comes from his own personal experiences, David Phillips narrates the terrifying descent of Syria from a stable if prosaic backwater to that of a Hobbesian state of nature. From the 'Red Lines' that weren't to the abandonment of its Kurdish allies, his searing insights and conclusions also provide jarring punctuation for the United States' declining moral and political leadership, and the implications of this tragic abdication for the Middle East and beyond.
Syria's once promising revolution failed, plunging the country into chaos and anarchy. Drawing on his decades of experience as an American diplomat, peacemaker and discreet back-channel, David Phillips explores what went wrong. While many share the blame, he finds particular fault in the US government's response for making promises it never intended to keep, leaving Syrian activists to die, and thereby opening the gates of Hell to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history.