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Cover; Contents; 1: Introducing Syria; 2: Physical Landscapes; 3: Syria's Ancient Past; 4: Syria Enters Modern Times; 5: People and Culture; 6: Government and Politics; 7: Syria's Economy; 8: Living in Syria Today; 9: Syria Looks Ahead; Facts at a Glance; History at a Glance; Bibliography; Further Reading; Photo Credits; Index; About the Contributors

Written poems, legislative policies, and on-line posts are experiments to be tested and digested by computers and peoples. This essay is an experiment testing the nature of another experiment, Syria

« Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how did this once rich, multi-cultural society end up as the site of one of the twenty-first century's most devastating and brutal conflicts? In this incisive book, internationally renowned Syria expert David Lesch takes the reader on an illuminating journey through the last hundred years of Syrian history – from the end of the Ottoman empire through to the current civil war. The Syria he reveals is a fractured mosaic, whose identity (or lack thereof) has played a crucial part in its trajectory over the past century. Only once the complexities and challenges of Syria's history are understood can this pivotal country in the Middle East begin to rebuild and heal. « (Verlagsbeschreibung)

The Syrian civil war stands as the most serious failure of the responsibility to prevent since the adoption of R2P in 2005. As the war has continued, there have been atrocities and abuse committed against vulnerable populations on a widespread and systematic scale. This article focuses on the atrocity prevention efforts undertaken in the first phase of the crisis from March 2011 to August 2012. It shows that while there were multiple tools utilized by a range of local, regional, and international actors, none of them had a lasting impact on the commission of atrocity crimes in Syria. This failure is due to five principal reasons. First, engagement to prevent atrocities came too late. Second, domestic and regional conditions were not conducive to prevention. Third, there was little reason for the warring parties to compromise. Fourth, there was a disconnect between what Western states wanted to achieve in Syria and what they were prepared to do about it. And fifth, the UN's envoys had limited options for engagement.