WORKSHOP

THE SYRIAN IMBROGLIO: REGIONAL

STRATEGIES

AND INTERNATIONAL

Ioannis Galariotis | Max Weber Fellow, EUI and Kostas Ifantis | Panteion University and Kadir Has
University
Seminar Room 4
Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini, 9 - San Domenico di Fiesole

16 JUNE 2016

INTRODUCTION
The civil war in Syria has international repercussions due to the ongoing multi-sided character of the
sectarian conflict and the involvement of all major global and regional powers. Despite the unending
violence and the perpetuation of the Syrian inferno, less scholarly attention has been given to the
intervention of the international community to mediate the war. The basic goal of this workshop is to
fill this gap, at least partially, by assessing the involvement of major international and regional actors
in the Syrian crisis. Toward this end, this workshop will gather scholars and practitioners in this field
to examine, among others, the following issues: the strategy of the United States, the intervention of
Russia, the European Unions action, Turkeys foreign policy, and Saudi Arabias involvement in the
Syrian civil war.

PROGRAMME
11.00-11.15

Welcome Speech
Ulrich Krotz | EUI

REGIONAL ACTORS
11:1512:45

Saudi Arabias Syria Policy: The Cost of Going for Broke

Neil Quilliam | Chatham House
Turkey and the Syrian Crisis
Mustafa Aydin | Kadir Has University

12.45-14.00

Lunch Break

INTERNATIONAL ACTORS
14:0015:30

The Obama Doctrine and the Syrian Quicksand

Ioannis Galariotis | EUI and Kostas Ifantis | Panteion University and Kadir
Has University
State Order Comes First: The Normative, Security and Status Concerns
Driving Russias Approach to the Syrian Crisis
Hanna Notte | Oxford University

15:3016:00

Coffee Break

16:00 16:45

Ambiguity or Impotence? Perceptions of Europe in the Syrian Conflict

Marina Calculli | The George Washington University

16:4517:15

Concluding Remarks
Ioannis Galariotis | EUI and Kostas Ifantis | Panteion University and Kadir
Has University

SPEAKERS
Mustafa Aydin

Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University

Marina Calculli

Fullbright Research Fellow, Elliott School of International Affairs,

The George Washington University

Ioannis Galariotis

Max Weber Fellow, EUI

Kostas Ifantis

Associate Professor of International Relations, Panteion

University and Kadir Has University

Ulrich Krotz

Professor of International Relations, EUI

Hanna Notte

D.Phil Researcher, Department of Politics and International

Relations, Oxford University

Neil Quilliam

Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House