Authors: Steven Simon, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies and Jonathan Stevenson, U.S. Naval War College
May/June 2004
Foreign Affairs
The Bush administration has shrugged off the Syrian president's recent attempts at rapprochement with the West. It should think again. With Syria's old ally Saddam Hussein gone, Damascus is trapped in a strategic quandary that makes it highly receptive to coercive diplomacy— of the kind that worked on Libya. And by engaging Syria sooner rather than later, the United States could give the Middle East peace process a shove in the right direction.
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