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Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Exploiting the Forbidden

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This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms - a repulsion known as the chemical taboo. On the surface, this would seem to be an appropriate reaction: these are nasty weapons and eradicating them would ostensibly comprise a 'good' move. But this book reveals two new aspects of the taboo that ...

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Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Exploiting the Forbidden 2016, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526104724

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Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Exploiting the Forbidden 2016, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526104717

Hardcover