Yezid Sayigh

Rus­sia seems in­tent on a po­lit­i­cal so­lu­tion in Syr­ia but it will have to press As­sad hard­er to ac­cept it.

The vi­o­lence sweep­ing across the Arab world isn’t a con­se­quence of the Arab Spring, but of decades of dic­ta­tor­ship.

When the time comes, new ap­proach­es to eco­nom­ic re­con­struc­tion are need­ed in Syr­ia.

Di­ver­gences over an ac­cept­able so­cial or­der, moral econ­o­my, and shared na­tion­al iden­ti­ty have be­come fun­da­men­tal.

A new frame­work for as­sis­tance that fo­cus­es on chang­ing in­cen­tive struc­tures for both refugees and hosts is need­ed.

Coun­tert­er­ror­ism can be tru­ly ef­fec­tive only through ac­count­able, le­git­i­mate and pro­fes­sion­al polic­ing.