{"id":6,"date":"2017-05-25T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/?p=6"},"modified":"2019-09-06T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:12:58","slug":"the-battle-for-syria-international-rivalry-in-the-new-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/2017\/05\/25\/the-battle-for-syria-international-rivalry-in-the-new-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry In the New Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/files\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_CARC-Syria-Photo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/files\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_CARC-Syria-Photo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/files\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_CARC-Syria-Photo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/files\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_CARC-Syria-Photo-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/files\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_CARC-Syria-Photo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On 31 January 2017, CARC was delighted to\u00a0welcome two external guest speakers to Kent for the launch of<\/div>\n<div><i>The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry In the New Middle East<\/i>, (Yale University Press, 2016).<\/div>\n<div>A fascinating\u00a0talk on the dynamics of the Syrian conflict and how it has been\u00a0affected by the changing external context, was given by the book&#8217;s author, Dr Christopher Phillips,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium\">Senior Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. This was followed by a response on the key themes from C<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">hris Doyle,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0Director of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><i>Council for Arab-British Understanding<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">, a London-based think tank dedicated to promoting conflict resolution, human rights and mutual understanding. The event concluded with an open discussion\u00a0with a capacity audience of students and staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The event was chaired by Dr Yaniv Voller, Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East at the University of Kent. Yaniv is the latest addition to the CARC team and to the School of Politics and International Relations, and reflects a strengthening of our research and teaching interests in Middle East politics.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 31 January 2017, CARC was delighted to\u00a0welcome two external guest speakers to Kent for the launch of The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/2017\/05\/25\/the-battle-for-syria-international-rivalry-in-the-new-middle-east\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50343,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[39524],"tags":[131004,182495,895,89231,182490,441,129779,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}