Multilateralismo necessário: uma análise da resposta norte-americana ao conflito civil na Síria como estratégia de rational cooperation

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2011, Syria holds within its borders one of the bloodiest civil conflicts of recent history. Triggered by the uprisings in the Middle East that became known as the Arab Spring, the Syrian population asked for better living conditions and individual rights, as for the end of the Bashar Al Assad’s regime. Marked by the violence of the government’s response, the Syrian uprising soon gained the attention of international society. Known as the great vector of occidental values, the American government, regarding an international strategy that emphasizes the lessen of the involvement of the country with Middle Eastern matters, chose multilateralism as the adequate answer to the events unfolding in Syria. This Senior Thesis analyzes the United States’ government choice of multilateralism as the foreign policy strategy of the country towards the civil conflict in Syria through the concept of rational cooperation.