Proxy Warfare on the Cheap: The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds - Couverture rigide

Michnik, Wojciech; Plakoudas, Spyridon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1793624860 ISBN 13 : 9781793624864

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1793624860
• ISBN 13: 9781793624864
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 134
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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