Proxy Warfare on the Cheap

The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvWojciech Michnik,Spyridon Plakoudas,Bahar Baser

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-14
Mått162 x 237 x 14 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieKurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations
Antal sidor134
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793624864

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AcknowledgmentsChapter I: Why the Kurds? Why Syria?Chapter II: The USA and Proxy Wars: From the Cold War to the PresentChapter III.: The Obama Administration and Proxy Warfare in SyriaChapter IV.: The Trump Administration and Proxy Warfare in SyriaChapter V: The Biden Presidency and the Syrian Kurds: Wither Rojava?Chapter VI: The USA – YPG/SDF Partnership: An AssessmentAppendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 3BibliographyAbout the Authors