The inability of the counter-revolutionary forces to appeal to more than the need for security means that the current political order can only be maintained through the use of coercion and violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra’s split from al-Qaeda offers the west a unique and crucial opportunity to create a fully inclusive and strengthened transition in Syria.
Rather than wait for the next round of negotiations, it is imperative that governments and international bodies continue to pressure the Syrian regime.
"Where are you from? - Italy." "Ah, you have Regeni. We have thousands of Regeni in Syria."
It is by recognising the role masculinities and gender expectations play in societies that we can fully understand and hope to address violence.
Jordanian volunteers in Syria come from diverse ideological backgrounds that do not necessarily align with the groups they join.
If lasting political change is to occur in Syria, the experience of its neighbours must be heeded.
Meredith Tax just had to find out who they were - the revolutionary women of Rojava, bearing arms against ISIS, building a new world...she had to find their story, for herself, and in her new book, for us.
In ‘Queens of Syria’, ancient Greek tales of loss and dislocation in conflict echo through to the contemporary realities of Syrian women refugees, whose experiences of war and exile have often been ignored
Once the external anchor of Turkey’s democracy, the EU‘s normative influence has sunk as low as its reputation among its many erstwhile supporters, who now feel betrayed and abandoned.
Is optimism in the future of revolutionary change misplaced in a region torn apart by war and a society where patriarchy has been so entrenched? Part 6 of Witnessing the Rojava revolution.
The binding of security to humanitarianism, as is the case with this EU-Turkey agreement, exposes its underlying aim of maintaining the economic trade integrity of the Union.
