POLS 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter Benedetta Berti and Jonathan Paris: Syrian Civil War, Damascus Spring, Damascus Declaration
23 Jul 2018
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Beyond sectarianism: geopolitics, fragmentation and the syrian civil war benedetta. It examines the impact of emerging sectarian and in-group tensions on the day after in syria. Increasingly empowered salafist and al-qaeda-inspired or affiliated jihadist groups have become important sectors of the anti-assad opposition: the strengthening of the radical camp of the opposition is related to another main driver of sectarianism in. Syria into both a proxy regional battlefield and a sectarian war. Broadening the battlefield external actors and geopolitics: at the most basic level, the conflict in syria today is an extension of the regional cold war between saudi. Iranian influence in the region by depriving tehran of its main arab ally and cutting off iranian supply lines to. Syrian army on the one hand, and their rival salafist factions. Saudi arabia, a horizontal struggle between the rebel forces over who represents the opposition, and a.
