Author profile: Fred H. Lawson

Fred H. Lawson, Lynn T. White, Jr. Professor of Government at Mills College, is author of Global Security Watch Syria (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2013) and Constructing International Relations in the Arab World (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006). He is past president of the Syrian Studies Association.

The Third Phase of Syria’s Ongoing Civil War

Fred H. Lawson • Jul 1 2013 • Articles

Syria’s civil war has entered a new phase, which is likely to be more explosive than the ones that preceded it. These trends in the uprising have much to contribute to current scholarship on civil war.