00784nam a22001457a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005805000150007610000100009124500680010126000530016930000390022250000510026150503260031220220218152602.0220218b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781786722485  aDS98.6.D35  d2017.  aDestroying a nation : the civil war in SyriacNikolaos Van Dam.  aLondon ; bI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd Creation c2017  a xiii, 242 pages :b map ; c20 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aContents:Introduction -- A synopsis of Ba'thist history before the Syrian Revolution (2011) -- Could the war in Syria have been avoided? -- Confrontation between the military of the regime and the opposition -- The ambivalent Western approach to the Syria conflict -- Intra-Syrian talks but no negotiations -- Conclusions