“The region of the Middle East and North Africa are chronically unlucky: after the start of the Arab Spring, these countries’ became territories for “wars on the periphery”. These are grim geopolitical sandboxes where regional and great powers play and resolve their conflicts. And if in 2020 only two…
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Tags : Libya, Turkey, Erdogan, Syria,
In both Libya and Syria, an uprising of civilians against their rulers resulted in intra-state conflicts. Despite comparable circumstances, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has approached these situations in different ways. The existing literature tends to consider both conflicts…
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Tags : Libya, Syria, UN, intervention,
Regional files are witnessing the crossing of wires in terms of variables, actors and the nature of the conflict. The Syrian and Libyan realities bore several similarities since the start of the conflict despite subsequent significant variables and paradoxes. And now the two files are again…
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Will the Libyan conflict lead to another faceoff between Turkey and Russia, similar to the one in Syria? It is a question that many in Turkey have been asking since the emergency security meeting that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened last week over the deployment of Russian…
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Tags : Libya, Syria, syrianization,