Syria. After war ends, what comes next?

An indispensable guide to help you understand the complex elements of this tragedy. Read What Is the Endgame in Syria? 

After nearly eight years of brutal civil war, the end appears to be in sight. And for most people, understanding the war, let alone grasping the significance of its outcome, has seemed impossible.

Who are the winners … if any? What will the new Syria look like, and can its cities and infrastructure ever be rebuilt? What are the political ramifications of the numerous potential alliances and outcomes?

If you think there’s simply no understanding such a quagmire, you’re partly right. But you can get as close to understanding it as the world’s leading observers and Middle East experts do.

What’s more, our writers are all experts in their fields, with boots on the ground around the world. 

And World Politics Review reports on politics, economics, war, immigration, justice, social change and more from every region in the world. Our experts know how to spot trends, report essential facts, and boil it all down for you in relevant, clear, actionable language.

That’s because they’ve written an outstanding new FREE Special Report on it all, What Is the Endgame in Syria? for World Politics Review. And you can download it for free right now.

Is ISIS really gone?

Among many other pressing questions, the world wonders what will happen to the last vestiges of the Islamic State. President Donald Trump would have you believe the West has “won” against the Jihadists. This report delivers the bad news that he’s wrong.

Yes, as Middle East scholar Tore Hamming writes, the crumbling caliphate and the resulting demise of the Islamic State’s propaganda output will certainly make it a less attractive outfit to join for those who sympathize with its cause.

But at the same time, while its fall will emphatically change global jihadism and its organizational and ideological expressions, its prospects for mobilization and success are far from dead. 

“After all, there is little indication that jihad as a method of political mobilization has lost support among those who are disaffected and radicalized,” says Hamming.

So now what? If you need to understand the political and social outlook for Syria after ISIS, you must read this FREE Special Report. It also delves deeply into this issue, pointing out that the West has no way forward for Syria – but President Bashar al-Assad definitely has one: a restoration of brutal central state authority through harsh, mostly unilateral means.

A must-read resource for understanding the future of Syria

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And World Politics Review reports on politics, economics, war, immigration, justice, social change and more from every region in the world. Our experts know how to spot trends, report essential facts, and boil it all down for you in relevant, clear, actionable language.