Syria: What is the role for non-regional states?
Non-Middle Eastern players’ intervention in the Syrian conflict has taken different forms, while the nature of their involvement has evolved in recent years. Pursuing competitive, not to say diverging goals, in Syria, Russians, Americans and Europeans have had to live together on the Syrian conflictual space for more than two years. In the United States just like in France, the advent of a new administration has reshaped the posture vis-à-vis the Syrian dossier. Russia, for its part, after having won the war, seeks to forge the peace, undertaking a peacebuilding initiative.