Proxy Warfare on the Cheap
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A01=Spyridon Plakoudas
A01=Wojciech Michnik
Assad Regime
Author_Spyridon Plakoudas
Author_Wojciech Michnik
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Erdogan's Turkey
Foreign Intervention
ISIS
Proxy Warfare
Syrian Civil War
Syrian Kurds
US Foreign Policy
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- ISBN 9781793624864
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 162 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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).
