Richard N. Haass
Into Syria without Arms
NEW YORK – Much of the debate over what to do in the Middle East tends to pit realists against idealists. Bahrain is a classic case, as is S…
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Syria is burning, while the rest of the world debates what can and should be done to stop the bloodshed. Project Syndicate’s foreign-policy experts, from Anne-Marie Slaughter to Gareth Evans, together with regional specialists Ribal Al-Assad and Mohammed Ayoob, offer their insights into the crisis and the world’s response.
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Soli Ozel
Turkey’s Lonely Neighborhood Watch
ISTANBUL – For nearly a decade, Turkey benefited from a strategic environment that allowed it to raise its profile, widen its zone of autono…
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Christopher R. Hill
Where Are the Syrian Peacemakers?
DENVER – Much has been said about the similarities between the chaos in Syria and the Balkan wars of the 1990’s. But, while the prolonged ki…
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Joseph S. Nye
The Intervention Dilemma
CAMBRIDGE – When should states intervene militarily to stop atrocities in other countries? The question is an old and well-traveled one. Ind…
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Itamar Rabinovich
The Anarchy Factor in Syria
TEL AVIV – The failure of the Obama administration, its Western allies, and several Middle East regional powers to take bolder action to sto…
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Mind the Neighbors
PRINCETON – The conventional wisdom last week on whether Syria would comply with former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s ceasef…
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Gareth Evans
Saving the Syrians
CANBERRA – Despite the United Nations Security Council’s belated endorsement of UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan’s peacemaking mission in Syria, …
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Itamar Rabinovich
Forging Syria’s Opposition
TEL AVIV – Syria’s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight. The country is at a st…
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Shlomo Ben-Ami
Syria’s Agony
MADRID – The English author and priest William Ralph Inge once said that “A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on…
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Jaswant Singh
Return to the Arc of Crisis
NEW DELHI – Thirty-three years ago, then-US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of an “arc of crisis” coursing through the M…
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