Syria

In the Media

Ali comments on Syrian coup: "Remarkable series of events"

Dec 11, 2024 WJR

Ford School Professor of Practice Javed Ali comments on the sudden overthrow of Bashir al-Assad's regime in...

News

Fall of Syria's Assad regime, toppling of government by rebel coalition: U-M experts can share insights

Dec 9, 2024

Ford School experts are available to discuss the toppling of the Syrian government—and the end to the Assad family's half-century of rule.Javed Ali is an associate professor of practice at the Ford School of Public Policy and former senior U.S....

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In the Media

Ali says the overthrow of Syrian President Assad will have "devastating" impacts

Dec 8, 2024 ABC News

Discussing Syrian rebels overthrow of President Bashar Al-Assad, the Ford School's Javed Ali tells ABC News "This is a devastating setback for Iran and perhaps Russia and other countries as well." Ali probes the question "Whatever becomes of this...

In the Media

As Syrian rebels reach Damascus, Ali cites impact on surrounding countries

Dec 7, 2024 ABC News

The Ford School's Javed Ali shared with ABC News that Syrian insurgents reaching the capital Damascus would be a "Catastrophic loss to Iran and Hezbollah and the Palestinian groups that have used Syria as a pipeline of weapons for at least a couple...

In the Media

Ali on Israeli troops at the Syrian border

Dec 6, 2024 Fox Live Now

When Fox Live Now asked the Ford School's Javed Ali his thoughts on the movement of Israeli troops to the Syrian border, Ali noted that "The situation in Syria over the last few days is pretty remarkable because what's happened is a coalition of...

Publication

Stewart details the potentially drastic effects of another Turkish invasion in Syria

Jan 6, 2023

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on November 20, 2022, that another ground invasion of Syria would take place after launching a series of airstrikes targeting northern Syria and Iraq. In an article for the Middle East Institute,...

Michigan News release: Axelrod on "the blame game" for measuring cyber attack response

Mar 2, 2017

Whether a nation should retaliate against a cyber attack is a complicated decision, and a new framework guided by game theory could help policymakers determine the best strategy. The "Blame Game" was developed in part by Robert Axelrod, a...

Axelrod publishes study on strategic aspects of cyberattack, attribution and blame

Feb 27, 2017

A new study by Benjamin Edwards, Alexander Furnas, Stephanie Forrest, and Robert Axelrod, titled “Strategic aspects of cyberattack, attribution and blame” was published on February 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Levitsky in Estadão de São Paulo: Fasten your seat belts, but no New World Order

Jan 26, 2017

After the election of President Donald Trump, many writers have sought to understand how his campaign promises will translate into policy. One such exploration, "Wandering foreign policy leaves world on alert," by Claudia Trevisan from the Brazilian...

Melyvn Levitsky on Brazil's Presidential Election

Susan Waltz reflects on United Nations General Assembly international Arms Trade Treaty

May 8, 2013

This April, the United Nations General Assembly finalized the text of an international Arms Trade Treaty designed to staunch the flow of weapons to countries where they're likely to fuel human rights abuses. Ford School Professor Susan Waltz, who...

State & Hill

After war

Apr 22, 2013

Zouheir Al Ghreiwati looks toward the future of Syria Zouheir Al Ghreiwati's (BA '14) native land is a warzone. Hailing from Damascus, Syria, Al Ghreiwati lived in the now war-torn nation until his junior year of high school. Despite the...

Seeking Justice for Syrian Victims of War Crimes: Possibilities and Limitations of Universal Jurisdiction

Dec 2, 2019, 11:30 am-12:50 pm EST

3240 Weill Hall

Roger Lu Phillips, Legal Director at the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre, will discuss SJAC's work supporting Universal Jurisdiction prosecutions in Europe as well as its work ascertaining the fate of Syrian victims who have been detained or gone missing during the conflict.