Wojciech Michnik, Spyridon Plakoudas

Proxy Warfare on the Cheap

The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the USA decided, reluctantly at first, to use the Syrian Kurds as a cheap proxy warrior against ISIS and how this partnership evolved, in the end, into a not-so-cheap investment owing to its unforeseen geopolitical implications.

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Produktdetails

• Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781793624864
• ISBN-10: 1793624860
• Artikelnr.: 66761273

Autorenporträt

Wojciech Michnik is assistant professor of international relations and security studies at Jagiellonian University. Spyridon Plakoudas is assistant professor of homeland security at Rabdan Academy (UAE).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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