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Syria’s Fractured Future
Syria’s Fractured Future
Oil and Borders: How to Fix Iraq’s Kurdish Crisis
Oil and Borders: How to Fix Iraq’s Kurdish Crisis
Table of Contents
  1. Overview
  2. A Controversial Independence Referendum
  3. What Did the Kurds Gain?
  4. Baghdad’s and Erbil’s Need to Restart Talks
  5. The Need for External Mediation
  6. A Way Forward
  7. A Reinvigorated Role for UNAMI
  8. External Actors’ Interests
  9. Perspectives in the Disputed Territories
  10. Conclusion
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Syria’s Fractured Future

Despite recent successes in Syria for the regime, Iran, Russia and Syria’s Kurds, deeper polarisation than ever points to a future in which the country remains chronically divided.

Syria’s Fractured Future

Crisis Group Senior Analyst for Syria Noah Bonsey talks about the prospect of decentralisation in Syria. CRISIS GROUP

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