Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria: US Options in the New Phase of the Syrian Conflict

Speaker: Dr. Amy Austin Holmes (George Washington University)

Date: 28 August 2024

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Biography: Dr. Amy Austin Holmes is Research Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University and is also on the faculty at the Bush School of Government and Public Service. Dr. Holmes has published on the global American military posture, the NATO alliance, non-state actors, revolutions, military coups, and de-facto states. Dr. Holmes earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and has held positions at the American University in Cairo and at Harvard University’s Belfer Center. She also served at the U.S. State Department through a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship and as Acting Director of the Foreign Area Officer (FAO) Program at GW.  Dr. Holmes is the author of three books, including Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria (Oxford University Press 2024), Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi (OUP) and Social Unrest and American Military Bases in Turkey and Germany since 1945 (CUP).