Amal Saad Ghorayeb: Assad and the Resistance

Assad Foreign Policy (I): A History of Consistence

Assad Foreign Policy (II): Strategies of Confrontation

I mainly agree with Amal Saad Ghorayeb here.  Her second paper completes the first but is much more convincing than the first, not because of substance, because the substance of both is interlinked, but because it is better writing.  Amal is much more comfortable building an argument than deconstructing and in the first paper she had to deconstruct what she calls the 'third wayers'.  Third wayers in the Syria crisis are those who claim they refuse intervention but they criticise Assad, especially in his resistance credentials, and call for regime change.