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Proxy Warfare on the Cheap
The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds
Proxy Warfare on the Cheap
The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds
Description
This book illuminates on the US strategy of proxy warfare in modern times with the Syrian Civil War as a case study. Spyridon Plakoudas and Wojtek Michnik fuse modern history with international relations and strategic studies in order to offer an up-to-date and critical analysis of this unique partnership between a state (USA) and a non-state actor (Syrian Kurds) against another non-state actor (ISIS) - amidst the wider Syrian civil war. They argue that this partnership ended up as a double-edged sword: on the one hand, it defeated ISIS at a minimum cost in money and blood in comparison to the Iraq War, but, on the other hand, it ensnared the USA into a tangled web of competition and conflict with other powers with no easy way-out. In other words, proxy warfare may prove a not-so-cheap investment in the end.
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Why the Kurds? Why Syria?
Chapter II: The USA and Proxy Wars: From the Cold War to the Present
Chapter III.: The Obama Administration and Proxy Warfare in Syria
Chapter IV.: The Trump Administration and Proxy Warfare in Syria
Chapter V: The Biden Presidency and the Syrian Kurds: Wither Rojava?
Chapter VI: The USA – YPG/SDF Partnership: An Assessment
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Bibliography
About the Authors
Product details
| Published | Feb 06 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 134 |
| ISBN | 9781793624871 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 9 b/w photos; |
| Series | Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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