The Syria Dilemma /

"The United States is on the brink of intervention in Syria, but the effect of any eventual American action is impossible to predict. The Syrian conflict has killed more than 100,000 people and displaced millions, yet most observers warn that the worst is still to come. And the international co...

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Other Authors: Hashemi, Nader, 1966- (Editor), Postel, Danny (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : The MIT Press, 2013
Series:Boston review book.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Why Syria matters / Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel
  • Syria is not Iraq: why the legacy of the Iraq War keeps us from doing the right thing in Syria / Shadi Hamid
  • Why there is no military solution to the Syrian conflict / Asli Bâli and Aziz Rana
  • Bosnia and Syria: intervention then and now / Michael Ignatieff
  • What should be done about the Syrian tragedy? / Richard Falk
  • Anxiously anticipating a new dawn: voices of Syrian activists / Afra Jalabi
  • Syria is not a problem from Hell--but if we don't act quickly, it will be / Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • Supporting unarmed civil insurrection in Syria / Stephen Zunes
  • A Syrian case for humanitarian intervention / Radwan Ziadeh
  • Syria: the case for staggered decapitation / Tom Farer
  • A humanitarian strategy focused on Syrian civilians / Mary Kaldor
  • How to ease Syrian suffering / Kenneth Roth
  • The last thing Syrians need is more arms going to either side / Charles Glass
  • Syria is melting / Rafif Jouejati
  • Shopping option C for Syria: against arming the rebels / Marc Lynch
  • The price of inaction in Syria / Christoph Reuter; translated from the German by Ella Ornstein
  • With or without us: why Syria's future is in its own hands / Fareed Zakaria
  • The dangerous price of ignoring Syria / Vali Nasr
  • Syria, savagery and self-determination: what the anti-interventionists are missing / Nader Hashemi
  • From Dayton to Damascus / Christopher R. Hill
  • Better Assad than Islamists? Why the "Argument from Islamism" is wrong / Thomas Pierret.