Hard truths about reaching a ceasefire in Syria (op-ed)

Hard truths about reaching a ceasefire in Syria (op-ed)
- September 18, 2013
- An op-ed by Albert Wolf, political science graduate student, is featured on The Hill's Congress Blog September 18, 2013
From The Hill:
Secretary of State John Kerry affirmed that once an agreement has been reached over
how to dispose of Syria’s cache of chemical weapons, the U.S. and Russia will attempt
to forge a political solution to Syria’s civil war. The logistics surrounding a chemical
weapons deal will be tricky enough. Any deal will have to ensure weapons inspectors’
unfettered access to suspected chemical weapons storage sites. However, arranging
a ceasefire will be even harder for three reasons that the Obama administration may
prefer to ignore: #1: Most ceasefires and power-sharing deals fail. [Wolf is a researcher
in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, where
he is completing a project on authoritarian political survival and peacemaking in
the Middle East. He has been published in International Security, The Jerusalem Post,
The Times of Israel, The Houston Chronicle, Survival, and World Policy Journal, among
other publications.]
For the full post, please visit http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/323087-hard-truths....
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