Editorial - Amjad Abdi
'Integration or Imposition'? Arab Silence on US Plans for Syria and Lebanon
Recent movements by Thomas Barrack, the US Special Representative for Syria and Lebanon, combined with warnings and analyses from Abdul Bari Atwan, have once again placed a fundamental question on the agenda of public opinion and political elites in the region. Is what is being promoted today as the "rapprochement of Damascus and Beirut" merely a temporary, tactical security adjustment, or does it hold the initial signs of a broader strategic engineering that could permanently redefine the political and security balance of the Levant?