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Power Problems • May 17, 2022 

# The Dangerous Contradictions in U.S.-Syria Policy 

Joshua Landis, professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oklahoma, discusses the civil war in Syria, the fragmentation of the country, the history of US interventions in the conflict, how America’s strategy there works against itself, and how best to stabilize and potentially resolve what has become a protracted quagmire.

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- [Joshua Landis bio](https://www.ou.edu/cis/ias/faculty/joshua-landis)
- Steven Simon, Joshua Landis, and Aiman Mansour, “[How to Win the Influence Contest in the Middle East](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2021-02-03/how-win-influence-contest-middle-east),” *Foreign Affairs* 100, no. 1 (February 3, 2021).
- Joshua Landis and Steven Simon, “[The Pointless Cruelty of Trump’s New Syria Sanctions](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2020-08-17/pointless-cruelty-trumps-new-syria-sanctions),” *Foreign Affairs* 99, no. 4 (August 17, 2020).

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