Encounters with Western countries continue to colour political discourses, including on gender in turbulent Syria. But women’s influence is more diverse and powerful than what is portrayed.
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World powers including Russia, the US and Turkey all have a stake in the Syrian conflict – but the networks they rely on for influence are constantly in flux.
The problem with Syria is that all sides have their own reasons for acting the way they do – and they all think they’re right.
We’re unlikely to see the Syrian leader face charges for crimes against humanity any time soon.
Critics claim that Russia and Syria are targeting civilians with thermobaric ‘vacuum’ bombs.
The survival of civilians seem forgotten in a new U.S. and Russian agreement to root out IS and other terrorists in Syria.
Three suicide bombers killed 42 at Turkey’s busiest airport June 28. A scholar explains how Turkey’s foreign policy blunders have made the country such a target for terrorist attacks.
Syria’s chemical weapons were supposedly all destroyed in 2014, but news reports indicate that nerve gas may have been kept back.
The world has singularly failed to find a path forward for Syria – or to stop the Assad government flagrantly violating all efforts to stop the conflict.
Political will could have rescued Palmyra. Here’s why it didn’t.
News from Syria that the ancient town has been taken back from Islamic State is good news – but especially for Putin and Assad.
The Russian president is proving he has learned what America didn’t: to quit while ahead.
Speaking to The Atlantic, the president didn’t leave anything out – except the bit where thousands died and millions lost their homes.
Death toll data from the war in Syria should be treated with great caution. It’s nearly impossible to provide precise numbers and assigning blame for the casualties is harder again.
Stopping the conflict in Syria means solving a horrible array of intertwined, intractable problems.
On February 11 a Syrian ceasefire was signed in Munich. Few are optimistic it will hold. Why? Because, argues one Middle Eastern scholar, world leaders are ignoring key realities.
The agreement so enthusiastically received by the world is less a leap forward than a cynical act of self-preservation.
The latest attempt to broker a peace in Syria faces even longer odds than previous ones.
Why there’s a slender – a very slender – chance for working out a settlement at upcoming talks in New York.
Syria’s demographics are markedly different to Lebanon’s. A power-sharing arrangement would be more difficult to design.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer in International Relations and International Security, University of Bath
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ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
