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How can the West reinforce the international order in a multipolar world? - 25 Jun 13

Tom Wright from Brookings will discuss how the United States and its allies should adjust their strategy to preserve and strengthen the international order in a more geopolitically competitive world.

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This essay forms part of ECFR's "Syria: Views from the Region" project, exploring the regional responses and ramifications of the Syrian uprising and civil war. The project will include eight essays documenting the dynamics driving the key regional states and actors most affected by the conflict.

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By Nicholas Walton - 05 Jun 13

ECFR reports: life and politics in Gaza

ECFR reports: Julien Barnes-Dacey on Syria's conflict

ECFR español: Eduard Soler sobre la política europea en Túnez

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Europe sticks a warning label on the settlements

By Daniel Levy - 18 Jun 13

With no real case to make, the bullying opponents of the European Union's long-delayed plan to label produce from Israeli settlements in the West Bank are crying anti-Semitism, cheapening the term at a particularly inopportune time.

Syria: the view from Turkey

By Nuh Yilmaz - 18 Jun 13

Syria: the view from Jordan

By Julien Barnes-Dacey - 17 Jun 13

Amman has gradually escalated its anti-Assad posture, providing wider political and military support in a bid to try and prevent the emergence of a chaotic no man’s land on its border, it continues to seek a political deal to end the conflict.

Syria: the view from Iran

By Jubin Goodarzi - 16 Jun 13

Iran views Syria through the prism of the larger struggle it perceives being waged against the Islamic Republic by regional and Western actors. It fears that the ouster of the Assad regime will pave the way for the emergence of a new Syrian and regional order intrinsically and actively hostile towards Tehran.

Syria: the view from Iraq

By Hayder al-Khoei - 14 Jun 13

The government of Nouri al-Maliki has positioned itself as a firm supporter of Bashar al-Assad, notably out of fear that his defeat would empower similar Sunni opposition forces in Iraq. But Iraq’s Sunni actors and Kurds are using the crisis in Syria to assert their own ambitions.

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