Implications of the 2011-13 Syrian Uprising for the Middle Eastern Regional Security Complex
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Lawson, Fred
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Lawson, Fred H. Implications of the 2011-13 Syrian Uprising for the Middle Eastern Regional Security Complex. CIRS Occasional Paper 14. Doha: Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, 2014.
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By the autumn of 2013, the Middle Eastern regional security complex(RSC) had taken on a new configuration, which was substantially different from - and much more explosive than - the one that existed prior to the large-scale popular uprisings that broke out across the Arab world in the winter of 2010-11. Foreign policies adopted between 2000 and 2010 by the Ba‘thi regime in Damascus, the leaderships of Hizbullah and HAMAS, and the Israeli government to parry overlapping internal and external threats created an unprecedented patchwork of strategic rivalries and alignments. Large-scale popular unrest in Iraq and Egypt in early 2011, along with the outbreak of full-scale civil war in Syria later that same year, generated an even more intricate web of interstate security dynamics. The reconfigured RSC that emerged out of the “Winter of Arab Discontent” is only beginning to be explicated, and can best be addressed by tracing the connection between domestic political conflicts and shifts in external belligerence and alignment across the region.
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