UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX NATURE OF THE SYRIAN CRISES

Abstract

Abstract

By taking the lead from the ‘Arab Spring’, starting from January 26, 2011, the Syrian people launched peaceful protests against the Bashar-ul-Asad regime’s policies, but it quickly turned into a full scale civil war, causing the death of over half a million people, pushing Syria back into ‘Stone Age’. In the presence of external players, including America and Russia in opposite camps; the security state in Syria has become too complex. The US decision to pull out its troops from Syria has helped Assad significantly consolidate his grip over the country. Yet, a sense of durable peace in Syria is still off the map due to the interplay of multiple factors. In this research, Syria’s civil war has been analysed as a case study through a combination of historical, descriptive and qualitative research methods.