The US Policy Towards the Syrian Conflict: Continuity or Change?

Abstract

The Paper aims to review the US foreign policy options towards the Syrian conflict, especially during Obama presidency. Whilethe US adopted less assertive policies, they remained similar to previous US administrations in terms of their realistic approach.President Obama followed a hybrid pattern of realistic but carefully calculated choices in Syria, because the US waspredisposed by several variables or determinants that heavily influenced not only US polices but all stakeholders in the conflict.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 29, 2018
Accession Number
AD1176782

Entities

People

  • Ashraf T Aldmour

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Civil War
  • Geography
  • Geopolitics
  • Governments
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Middle East
  • National Security
  • Political Movements
  • Second World War
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution