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dc.contributor.authorBashur, Diana
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-13T08:51:16Z
dc.date.available2018-07-13T08:51:16Z
dc.date.issued2018-02
dc.identifier.citationBashur, D. (2018). What the West owes Syrians. Syria Studies, 9(2), 31-59en_US
dc.identifier.issn2056-3175en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/syria/article/view/1562en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/15346
dc.description.abstractIn What the West Owes Syrians, Diana Bashur explores another significant post-uprising reality, Syrian refugees and the costs involved in hosting them by Western countries. Here Bashur is seeking to draw our attention to an important, yet largely ignored, correlation between the profit incurred through arms sales by Western countries to countries that have provided support to the armed opposition and the costs involved in hosting Syrian refugees in the West. Bashur eloquently contrasts the extent to which the West was enthusiastic about the Arab Spring with the significant increase in arms sales to the region by EU and the US, 23% and 300% respectively. Bashur leaves us with the sobering probability that some European politicians “… may have opted for a tradeoff: making their taxpayers shoulder the short-term cost of hosting refugees in exchange for profits to the arms industry.”en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for Syrian Studies, School of International Relations, University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSyria Studiesen_US
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2018 Diana Bashur.en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectContemporary Syriaen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectPolitical economyen_US
dc.subjectArms salesen_US
dc.subjectReconstructionen_US
dc.subjectRefugeesen_US
dc.subjectMiddle Easten_US
dc.subject.lccDS92.S9en_US
dc.subject.lcshSyriaen_US
dc.titleWhat the West owes Syriansen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.statusPeer revieweden_US


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