The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria : Between A Rock and A Hard Place

ABOUT AUTHORS FOREWORD Andreas Schieder, MEP INTRODUCTION Thomas Schmidinger CHAPTER 1. History of Syrian Kurds and Their Political Parties Jordi Tejel CHAPTER 2. Christians in North Syria: Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians, and Kurdish converts Thomas Schmidinger CHAPTER 3. Yezidis in Syria Sebastian Maisel CHAPTER 4. The Jews of North and East Syria and their Heritage Thomas Schmidinger CHAPTER 5. On the Kurdish Quest for Autonomy: Rojava’s Political System and the Structures of Self-Administration in North and East Syria Rosa Burç CHAPTER 6. Struggle against ISIS and the Integration of Arab territories in the Autonomous Administration Wladimir van Wilgenburg CHAPTER 7. Turkey’s War in Syria: Prevention or Expansion Arzu Yilmaz CHAPTER 8. The impact of Turkey’s 2019 invasion on North and East Syria Thomas McClure & Nina Steinhardt CHAPTER 9. United States-Kurdish Relations over North-eastern Syria: From instrumentalism to doctrinism? Nazan Bedirhanoğlu CHAPTER 10. Russian Positions on Syria and Syrian Kurds Konstantin Truevtsev CHAPTER 11. Weapons, Borders, and Human Rights: The complicated relationship between the European Union and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Francesco Marilungo CHAPTER 12. The UN and the Turkish Invasion in Syria Christoph Osztovics