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    The Consequences of Syria
    The Consequences of Syria
    The Consequences of Syria
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    The Consequences of Syria

    By Lee Smith

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    In The Consequences of Syria, Lee Smith analyzes the current U.S. administration's stance on Syria, questioning whether it will build the foundations of a new Middle East or usher in an era of instability that will affect the entire world. The author contends that the many apparent shifts in the administration's Syria policy were part of a messaging campaign intended to camouflage President Obama's determination to stay out of the Syrian conflict. Smith concludes that the next White House will have to deal with a region that contains more violence, betrayed allies, emboldened adversaries, and an Iran almost on the verge of a nuclear breakout that will further destabilize a vital strategic region.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9780817917760
    The Consequences of Syria
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    Lee Smith

    Lee Smith is the best-selling author of over a dozen books, including Dimestore: A Writer's Life and Guests on Earth. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

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      The Consequences of Syria - Lee Smith

      HERBERT AND JANE DWIGHT WORKING GROUP ON ISL AMISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

      Many of the writings associated with this Working Group will be published by the Hoover Institution. Materials published to date, or in production, are listed below.

      ESSAY SERIES:

      THE GREAT UNRAVELING: THE REMAKING OF THE MIDDLE EAST

      In Retreat: America’s Withdrawal from the Middle East

      Russell A. Berman

      Israel and the Arab Turmoil

      Itamar Rabinovich

      Reflections on the Revolution in Egypt

      Samuel Tadros

      The Struggle for Mastery in the Fertile Crescent

      Fouad Ajami

      The Weaver’s Lost Art

      Charles Hill

      The Consequences of Syria

      Lee Smith

      ESSAYS

      Saudi Arabia and the New Strategic Landscape

      Joshua Teitelbaum

      Islamism and the Future of the Christians of the Middle East

      Habib C. Malik

      Syria through Jihadist Eyes: A Perfect Enemy

      Nibras Kazimi

      The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan

      Ziad Haider

      Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah: The Unholy Alliance and Its War on Lebanon

      Marius Deeb

      [For a list of books published under the auspices of the WORKING GROUP ON ISLAMISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER, please see page 57.]

      The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, founded at Stanford University in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become the thirty-first president of the United States, is an interdisciplinary research center for advanced study on domestic and international affairs. The views expressed in its publications are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, officers, or Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution.

      www.hoover.org

      Hoover Institution Press Publication No. 651

      Hoover Institution at Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, California, 94305-6010

      Copyright © 2014 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher and copyright holders.

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      ISBN 978-0-8179-1775-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)

      ISBN 978-0-8179-1776-0 (epub)

      ISBN 978-0-8179-1777-7 (mobi)

      ISBN 978-0-8179-1778-4 (PDF)

      The Hoover Institution gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and foundations for their significant support of the

      HERBERT AND JANE DWIGHT WORKING GROUP ON ISLAMISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER:

      Herbert and Jane Dwight

      Beall Family Foundation

      Stephen Bechtel Foundation

      Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

      Mr. and Mrs. Clayton W. Frye Jr.

      Lakeside Foundation

      CONTENTS

      Series Foreword

      by Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill

      The Consequences of Syria

      I. Looking at Syria, Seeing Iraq

      II. History’s Seeds

      III. The Devil We Know

      IV. The Jihadist Alibi

      About the Author

      About the Hoover Institution’s Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order

      Index

      SERIES FOREWORD

      The Great Unraveling: The Remaking of the Middle East

      IT’S A MANTRA, but it is also true: the Middle East is being unmade and remade. The autocracies that gave so many of these states the appearance of stability are gone, their dreaded

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