What is the future of Syria?
The fall of Damascus and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad last December marked a historic rupture for the entire Middle East.
Syria is at the center of a vast field of tensions where the geopolitical ambitions of regional and global powers are intertwined: Turkey, pursuing its neo-Ottoman objectives; Russia, trying to preserve its strategic bases; Iran, readjusting its presence in the face of its own economic and military constraints; and the United States, consolidating its influence through its support for certain local actors, such as the Kurdish militias of Rojava. These rivalries are added to the economic ambitions of the Gulf countries, which seek to reshape the region according to their strategic interests.
Ethnic and religious divisions, exacerbated by decades of conflict, are also shaking the very foundations of Syrian national unity. Prolonged instability, resurgence of terrorism, territorial fragmentation, and massive population displacement... These dynamics, far from being limited to the Middle East, risk upsetting the global geopolitical balance.
Apero Geopolitique conference will be an opportunity to discuss the essential questions and reflect on the strategic challenges that are reshaping the future of the
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What is the future of Syria?
The fall of Damascus and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad last December marked a historic rupture for the entire Middle East.
Syria is at the center of a vast field of tensions where the geopolitical ambitions of regional and global powers are intertwined: Turkey, pursuing its neo-Ottoman objectives; Russia, trying to preserve its strategic bases; Iran, readjusting its presence in the face of its own economic and military constraints; and the United States, consolidating its influence through its support for certain local actors, such as the Kurdish militias of Rojava. These rivalries are added to the economic ambitions of the Gulf countries, which seek to reshape the region according to their strategic interests.
Ethnic and religious divisions, exacerbated by decades of conflict, are also shaking the very foundations of Syrian national unity. Prolonged instability, resurgence of terrorism, territorial fragmentation, and massive population displacement... These dynamics, far from being limited to the Middle East, risk upsetting the global geopolitical balance.
Apero Geopolitique conference will be an opportunity to discuss the essential questions and reflect on the strategic challenges that are reshaping the future of the region and the world.
Our experts will be:
Jean-Daniel Ruch - Ex-Special Representative of Switzerland in the Middle East, former Swiss Ambassador in Serbia, Israel, and Turkey
Brunson McKinley - Diplomat at the State Department, Former U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Former General Director of the International Office for Migration at the UN in Geneva.
Hicheme Lehmici - a geopolitical analyst, regular columnist in different international media, a lecturer at the SWISS UMEF University of Applied Sciences Institute
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