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THe syria dilemma the syria dilemma edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel A Boston Review Book the mit press Cambridge, Mass. London, England Copyright © 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. mit Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email [email protected] or write to Special Sales Department, The mit Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, ma 02142. This book was set in Adobe Garamond by Boston Review and was printed on recycled paper and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Syria dilemma / edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel. pages cm.—(Boston review books) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-02683-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Syria—History—Protests, 2011–2. Peace-building— International cooperation. I. Hashemi, Nader, 1966– II. Postel, Danny. DS98.6.S94 2013 956.9104’2—dc23 2013024506 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To the Syrian people Contents Introduction Why Syria Matters 1 Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel Syria Is Not Iraq: Why the Legacy of the Iraq War Keeps Us from Doing the Right Thing in Syria 19 Shadi Hamid Why There Is No Military Solution to the Syrian Conflict 29 Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now 45 Michael Ignatieff What Should Be Done About the Syrian Tragedy? 61 Richard Falk Anxiously Anticipating a New Dawn: Voices of Syrian Activists 77 Afra Jalabi Syria Is Not a Problem from Hell—But If We Don’t Act Quickly, It Will Be 93 Anne-Marie Slaughter Supporting Unarmed Civil Insurrection in Syria 101 Stephen Zunes A Syrian Case for Humanitarian Intervention 119 Radwan Ziadeh Syria: The Case for Staggered Decapitation 131 Tom Farer A Humanitarian Strategy Focused on Syrian Civilians 147 Mary Kaldor How to Ease Syrian Suffering 161 Kenneth Roth The Last Thing Syrians Need Is More Arms Going to Either Side 167 Charles Glass Syria Is Melting 173 Rafif Jouejati Shopping Option C for Syria: Against Arming the Rebels 183 Marc Lynch The Price of Inaction in Syria 195 Christoph Reuter Translated from the German by Ella Ornstein
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