POLS G4845 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Erik Knudsen, Camp David Accords, Taif Agreement
18 Apr 2016
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Hinnebusch syrian foreign policy and the us: bush to obama. Bashar initially sought to improve syrian relations with iraq and turkey, opening to. Foreign policy determinants: sense of grievance from forced partition of historic levant (bilad al-sham) by. Western imperialism -> support palestinian operations against israel, recovery of golan: pervasive sense of insecurity. Hafez realized that syria needed allies in the region and could not avoid peace with. Bashar"s reformist project: modernizing authoritarianism making system work better so it could survive and deliver development, integration into world economy. Bracing for an uncertain future in syria 2012. Kofi annan"s peace plan calls for syrian-led political process to cease armed violence and dialogue between opposition forces and assad"s regime. Alternatives to annan"s peace plan would cause more problems than they would solve. Divisions between parties of conflict have made dialogue difficult. Competition mainly between gcc/sunni monarchies and shia iran, as well as israel and turkey.
