Destroying a Nation

The Civil War in Syria

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Pub Date 31 Oct 2017 | Archive Date 31 Oct 2017

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Former Special Envoy for Syria on Syria’s past, present and future

Syria was once a richly cultural, historical and seemingly peaceful country. Today it is a violent, fractured warzone; a breeding ground for new terrorist groups and the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history.

Nikolaos van Dam was Special Envoy to the Netherlands for Syria in 2015-6. In this groundbreaking eyewitness account, he examines the years before 2011, asking: could the War have been avoided? Van Dam addresses the global community’s failed attempts to bring about an end to the conflict, suggesting which factors must be prioritised in order for peace talks to have any lasting effect. Thorough yet lucid, this is an indispensable guide to the world’s biggest human crisis since the Second World War.

Former Special Envoy for Syria on Syria’s past, present and future

Syria was once a richly cultural, historical and seemingly peaceful country. Today it is a violent, fractured warzone; a breeding...


Advance Praise

‘Nikolaos van Dam is simply one of the top experts on Syria...  This book is a sophisticated, yet accessible and readable analysis of a highly complex situation’

- David W. Lesch, author of Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad


‘Nikolaos van Dam is one of the finest Syriatologists of all time. This new book will be an overnight classic’

- Sami Moubayed, author of Under the Black Flag


‘The best book on the Syrian Civil War, hands down...a must read by a true scholar’

- Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Oklahoma

‘Nikolaos van Dam is simply one of the top experts on Syria...  This book is a sophisticated, yet accessible and readable analysis of a highly complex situation’

- David W. Lesch, author of Syria: The...


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I am always on the lookout for concise, reliable works that I can put into the hands of people who have demonstrated via reading longform journalism that they actually want solid background on a contemporary crisis--in this case, the six years and still unfolding Syrian Civil War. Van Dam is a scholar of the Middle East and has been on scene, and in the negotiating rooms of participants from Ankara to Moscow for the duration, and began his diplomatic career for the Netherlands in Beirut in the early 1980s.

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