Constructing a New Syria: Dealing with the Real Outcome of the “ISIS War” (CSIS)

It is all too easy to focus on the fighting with ISIS in Iraq and Syria, or the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria, and ignore the full implications of the Syrian civil war and the challenge it poses for the future. No one can ignore the threat that ISIS poses to the region, or the immediate humanitarian threat to more than half of Syria’s population. The fighting in Syria over nearly half a decade has, however, shattered what already was in many ways becoming a failed state. Any meaningful peace effort is going to have to go far beyond some kind of political settlement: It must virtually construct a new country.

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