CONTENTS

PREFACE

MAP OF SYRIA

Introduction

1 A Synopsis of Ba’thist history before the Syrian Revolution (2011)

2 Could the war in Syria have been avoided?

3 Confrontation between the military of the regime and the opposition

4 The ambivalent Western approach to the Syria conflict

5 Intra-Syrian talks but no negotiations

Conclusions

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

LIST OF MOVEMENTS AND FACTIONS