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Sami Moubayed has just come out with a wonderful book about US policy toward Syria. Forced to flee his beloved Damascus, Sami is now a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Beirut. Bravo Sami Syria and the USA: Washington’s Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower ‘Syria and the USA is [...]
Nokalaos van Dam has issued a new edition of his excellent book: The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Assad and the Baath Party. There is something to cheer about. I’ll give you an idea of what is new in the fourth edition, as compared with the third (published in 1996): The [...]
Nikolaos van Dam Recommends Five Books on Syria to Browser The veteran Dutch diplomat and academic explains what is important about each of his top-five picks on Syria and why meaningful political change in Syria will be difficult to achieve. He warns that any move towards democracy is likely to be accompanied by severe sectarian [...]
Thanks to Greg Gause for setting the record straight on the “nature of the Syrian regime” in this rebuttal of Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations. Cook explained “What the Neocons Got Right” in a short article for Foreign Policy last week. The three things they got right, Cook argues were: “Syria, Iran, [...]
Here are three new books about Syria that I can recommend wholeheartedly. I have corresponded with the authors for some time. The Road to Damascus: by Elaine Rippey Imady E.E. Whiting Talks to Elaine Rippey Imady about her life in Syria “…but we’ll only stay for a short while.” With these famous last words, Elaine [...]
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