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Monday, 14 January 2019 12:17

Russia in the Middle East: The Russian Bear in Mind | Middle East Bulletin 35

Russia in the Middle East: The Russian Bear in Mind | Middle East Bulletin 35
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Friday, 16 November 2018 11:32

Is the Khashoggi case shifting the Ankara-Riyadh-Washington relations?

Is the Khashoggi case shifting the Ankara-Riyadh-Washington relations?

turkey erdogan with trumpThe Khashoggi case has put a magnifying glass on the instability of relations among Middle East countries and especially on the turbulent relationship between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Turkey is in no position to take head on the Saudi kingdom regarding the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi; at the same time Erdogan cannot ignore such an overpublicized incident. Khashoggi may be the opportunity Erdogan was looking for in order to re-approach Saudi Arabia and the US, and establish Turkey as a strong middle power in the region. Only time will show if the rapprochement will be considered as a prudent diplomatic move by Erdogan.

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Wednesday, 11 July 2018 12:56

Interview with Regis Le Sommier, author of Assad

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Wednesday, 11 July 2018 12:48

Régis Le Sommier, Assad, Éditions de La Martinière, 2018

Régis Le Sommier, Assad, Éditions de La Martinière, 2018

Régis Le Sommier’s just published book is a highly idiosyncratic contribution to a growing body of books on Syria’s civil war. The author is deputy editor in chief of the elitist weekly Paris Match. Like David W. Lesch’s 2005 book, this one too is largely based on the author’s intimate knowledge of Syria’s President, a number of interviews with him and his entourage, and six trips to Syria in two years. The book is not meant to contribute highly original information on any aspect of the Syrian war. It is rather a knowledgeable insider’s account of a host of events whose wider impact Syria watchers have often missed out on. It’s also an indictment of what has been a woolly French policy vis-à-vis the country. Its originality lies in its angle.

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Wednesday, 09 May 2018 09:51

Interview with Nikolaos van Dam, author of Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria

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Wednesday, 09 May 2018 09:42

Nikolaos van Dam, Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, I.B. Tauris, 2017

Nikolaos van Dam, Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, I.B. Tauris, 2017

Nikolaos van Dam’s book is the work of a trenchant scholar and diplomat with a clear understanding of Syrian dynamics: the author is a decade-long Syria watcher who laments the country’s multiple plights. His book is an austere distillation of wrong choices, oversights and stubborn obsessions. It’s also a linear history of the Syrian conflict: van Dam shows how once the revolt broke out, war was inevitable. As the Dutch Special Envoy for Syria, van Dam is well-positioned to inquire into the 21st century’s most toxic conflict. His analysis is level-headed and intellectually coherent, quite possibly the best one so far in the form of a single volume.

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Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:19

Interview with Dawn Chatty, author of Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

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Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:11

Dawn Chatty, Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State, Hurst Publishers, 2017

Dawn Chatty, Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State, Hurst Publishers, 2017

Dawn Chatty’s book is a remarkable achievement in that it intertwines deep historical knolwedge with the impressions of the ever-curious traveller. The author has spent many years working in and on Syria. The book is not written from the perspective of the political sciencist, but that of the historian and anthropologist. In this sense, the reader should be familiar not only with modern Syrian politics but also with broader historical and geopolitical processes of the last two centuries around the area of ‘Greater Syria’. It is a history of broader human movements within a circle of continuous conflict and displacement. A light unto the nations, Syria has always been welcoming towards strangers.

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Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:35

Interview with Frédéric Pichon author of Syrie, une guerre pour rien

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Follow this link for our book review of Frédéric Pichon, Syrie, une guerre pour rien (Les Éditions du Cerf, 2017).

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Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:01

Frédéric Pichon, Syrie, une guerre pour rien, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2017

Frédéric Pichon, Syrie, une guerre pour rien, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2017

Frédéric Pichon’s diminutive book is more of a scathing indictment of what Western nations, France in particular, have done wrong in Syria. It is by no means a history of Syria’s war, which the reader ought to be familiar with before reading. French scholarship on Mediterranean affairs has been in no shortage. By virtue of its former regional status as a great power and an ever-sophisticated academia, France counts many knowledgeable pundits. Yet, an overwhelming preponderance of Anglophone international relations literature and the more introverted nature of the French academia has meant that francophone publications have made less noise.

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