The formation of containment in the Middle East: Syria and Iraq 2011-2016

 

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Upphovsman: González Vargas, Álvaro
Materialtyp: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Utgivningstid:2018
Beskrivning:At a time when world geopolitics is seeking ways to contain threats in the Middle East, the evolution of a strategy to try to contain the aggressiveness of the regime in Syria by Bashar al-Assad, after the radicalism of the Islamic State and other groups from the first experiences of containment against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, as well as against the Iranian Revolution, it is ambiguous. This strategy manifests itself in a fragmented nature. In the same United States leads a coalition together with European countries, the Middle East and Australia to counteract Sunni jihadism. It spread in the context of the Arab Spring. In this essay the context is contextualized in which first in Syria and then in Iraq they experience a strategy of containment. Then the theoretical discussion about the difficulties to get to concrete this strategy of containment by the foreign policy of the United States, starting from the Arab Spring.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisation:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Språk:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/33983
Länkar:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/33983
Nyckelord:Política de la contención de los Estados Unidos
conflicto en Siria e Irak
política exterior de los Estados Unidos en Medio Oriente
Primavera Árabe
Estado Islámico
ISIS
United States containment policy
conflict in Syria and Iraq
foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East
Arab Spring
Islamic State