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Chris Phillips

Christopher Phillips is lecturer in the international relations of the Middle East at Queen Mary, University of London. His website can be found here

March 2012

  • Members of Free Syrian Army are seen deployed in al-Bayada, Homs

    Can the Syrian regime crush the uprising? Yes, suggests history

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: Bashar al-Assad's fall is far from inevitable: past Middle Eastern uprisings have failed more often than succeeded

November 2010

  • al-qaida christians iraq attack church

    Cif belief
    Christianity's place in the Middle East

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: Overextrapolating from the al-Qaida church attack plays into the hands of radicals wanting to push the clash-of-civilisations myth

September 2010

  • Lebanon: Blair's other Middle East mistake

    Chris Phillips

    Chris Phillips: A Journey presents Blair's actions during the 2006 Lebanon war as those of a committed ideologue, not simply Bush's poodle

July 2010

  • Syria and the west: another wasted decade

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: Ten years of bullying has failed. If the west wants a more peaceful, democratic Middle East it must be friendlier to Syria

May 2010

  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan

    US hegemony in Middle East is ending

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: Talk of a Middle East cold war is inaccurate – Russia and Turkey are simply capitalising on the region's new power vacuum

March 2010

  • Miliband's grand Middle East delusion

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: The foreign secretary is wrong: Britain's soft power in the Middle East has much greater influence than its show of force in Iraq

February 2010

  • Syria's Assad: pariah to power-broker

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    Chris Phillips: It's a remarkable recovery in political and economic fortune that sees Syria and Assad being courted by the west and Arabs alike

January 2010

  • Jordan's King Abdullah

    Autocracy-lite in Jordan

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: Jordan is a key US ally in the Middle East, but is its democratic backsliding the shape of things to come in the region?

December 2009

  • Syrian bus bomb

    Explosion shakes Syrian security

    Chris Phillips

    Chris Phillips: A bus blast that killed three may allow Damascus to crack down, but it calls into question the effectiveness of its rule by force

November 2009

  • Netanyahu's Syrian distraction

    Chris Phillips

    Chris Phillips: France-brokered talks between Syria and Israel are unlikely to provide an avenue for peace – neither is offering anything new

October 2009

  • Brussels buckles, Damascus deliberates

    Chris Phillips

  • Turkey, Syria's new best friend

    Chris Phillips

August 2009

  • Syria: a good European neighbour?

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: Britain wants to bring the country in from the cold. The EU's European Neighbourhood Policy first needs an overhaul

July 2009

  • Can Syria end the Arab cold war?

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: The gradual return of international diplomats to Damascus signals a thaw in Syria's intractable feud with Saudi Arabia

May 2009

  • Cairo is the wrong choice for Obama

    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips: By choosing the corrupt Egyptian regime as his Middle Eastern host, Obama risks undermining his message of change

April 2009

  • Lebanon beyond sectarianism

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    Chris Phillips: The rise of two political blocs suggests a new non-religious electoral system is evolving in the country

February 2009

  • Doomed youth?

    Chris Phillips

    Chris Phillips: The disenfranchisement of young people is a growing problem in the Arab world

January 2009

  • Holding their fire

    Chris Phillips

    Chris Phillips: Why Hezbollah is reluctant to launch a full-scale attack on Israel

November 2008

  • Syria at the crossroads

    Chris Phillips

    Chris Phillips: While resisting Bush long provided an excuse not to get on with reform, it's now time for Bashar al-Assad to deliver

October 2008

  • Israel's multilateral option

    Chris Phillips

    Chris Phillips: As Israel braces itself for elections, two very different proposals on how to pursue peace with the Arab world have been obscured

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