Obama’s Syria Speech — A Diplomatic Solution?
By Taylor Marvin Yesterday President Obama gave an important speech on Syria, asking Congress to delay a decision on whether…
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The Perils of Disingenuous Proposals
By Andrew Kydd The tale of US involvement in the Middle Eastern civil wars has now officially entered…
Seriously Thinking About Syria
Guest post by Ora Szekely What to do about Syria? A little over eight years ago, in June of…
Obama’s Eden Moment
By Allison Beth Hodgkins As President Obama contemplates his next move on Syria, he would do well to consider…
Discussing the Potential Intervention in Syria
By Taylor Marvin As UN inspectors continue to investigate the near-certain large-scale use of chemical weapons in Syria —…
Military Intervention, Syrian Soldiers, and Civilians
Guest post by Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt Evidence of Syria’s chemical attack on civilians is mounting, and military intervention…
How Would Obama’s Syria Policy Benefit from Hindsight?
By Taylor Marvin The conflict in Syria has now killed over 100,000 people, and the war appears likely to…
Warlordism and Control in Syria
By Erica Chenoweth Ben Hubbard’s article in last Thursday’s New York Times has a few interesting insights. Assad…
5 Reasons Why the Obama Administration’s Decision to Offer “Military Support” to Syrian Rebels Couldn’t Come at a Worse Time
By Sara Bjerg Moller Yesterday’s surprise announcement by the White House that the US will “increase the scale and scope of…
R2P ≠ Regime Change
By Andrew Kydd We are now past at least 70,000 dead in the Syrian conflict and mass atrocities…