Proxy Warfare on the Cheap - The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations
Release date:	March 2023
Authors:	Spyridon Plakoudas • Wojciech Michnik
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	150
ISBN-13:	978-1-79362-486-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	1-79362-486-0
Barcode:	9781793624864

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