A renewed security focus on Afghanistan is part of Vladimir Putin’s plan to re-energise Russia’s vision of a ‘Greater Eurasia’.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Syria
Displaying 501 - 520 of 804 articles
Afghan, Syrian and Eritrean refugees keep arriving on Europe’s shores, reputedly at an increasing rate. They attempt to traverse the Mediterranean by land and sea, presumably hastened by Putin’s bombing…
After years out in the cold, the Iranians have a chance to be heard in the West – and they’ve got Saudi Arabia on their minds.
Solving the refugee crisis depends on the extent to which the people of the world – in the Gulf, Europe, Australia or anywhere else – are willing to live up to their moral responsibilities.
Russia’s Syria play may have hit some snags already, but the US is hardly placed to kick up a fuss.
The refugee crisis that just arrived in Europe has been affecting Turkey for more than four years.
Airspace incursions are spilling over into wider tensions.
The face-off between Russia and the West in Syria is giving both sides a chance to try out their new high-tech weaponry.
Bombing Syria seems to have become obligatory for any aspiring great power. After all, what’s the point in spending all that money on sophisticated warplanes if you can’t actually use them on someone…
Relations between the two countries, once cordial, have been strained by Russia’s intervention in Syria.
Rather than being a proactive realignment, Australia’s shift in policy on Syria was a reactive realisation that it was being left behind.
Syria needs its children to build a better future, but hundreds of thousands are being deprived of an education.
To his home audience, Vladimir Putin’s strategy in Syria appears to be sound.
Russia has started bombing some of the groups machinating against Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Who are they, and what do they want?
Despite a fierce exchange of rhetoric over Russia’s airstrikes in Syria, it makes sense for Moscow and Washington to coordinate their military intervention.
Why has Vladimir Putin stepped up his Syrian game so radically – and is it really all as sudden as it seems?
The real winners this week in international diplomacy have been Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
There’s an understandable impulse to treat all refugees the same regardless of religious identity. But is that actually helpful?
Life in the caliphate wasn’t exactly as advertised for one group of former fighters.
By refusing to take in Syrian refugees, the Gulf States’ governments prove they don’t care much about the humanitarian crisis on their doorstep.
Top contributors
-
Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
-
Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
-
Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
-
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
-
Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
-
Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
-
Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
-
British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
-
Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
-
Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
-
Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
-
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
