American Foreign Policy Toward the Syrian Civil War
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2017

This thesis investigates the shift in the “schizophrenic” American foreign policy toward the Syrian Civil War from 2011 to 2015, following the Arab Spring protests. What objectives were outlined, and what events on the ground influenced American policy toward Syria? To what extent did key governmental institutions, American leaders and international alliances help to shape policy? The research examines policy objectives through contrasting analytical lenses using the Rational Policy Model, the O