Robert Rabil: Post-Assad Middle East, Fate of Syria Uncertain, Axis of Resistance Collapsed
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 14 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Professor Robert Rabil discusses the fall of Assad and situation in Syria, the collapse of the “Axis of Resistance”, the future of Lebanon, regime change in Jordan and Iran, the Gulf, the interests of Turkey-Israel-America, the danger of Islamic radicalism, the fate of Christians in the region, and more!
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About Robert Rabil
Robert Rabil is professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. He served as the Red Cross’s Chief of Emergency in the Baabda region, Beirut, during Lebanon’s civil war and was the project manager of the US State Department-funded Iraq Research and Documentation Project. He has been awarded the LLS Distinguished Faculty Award, LLS Distinguished Professor of Current Affairs, and FAU Scholar of the Year award. He was conferred with an honorary Ph.D. in humanities from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
He is author of Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel and Lebanon, Syria, the United States and the War on Terror in the Middle East, Religion, National Identity and Confessional Politics in Lebanon, Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism, The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: The Double Tragedy of Refugees and Impacted Host Communities, and White Heart.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:38.1 | out all of my affiliates. Joining us for the first time on geopolitics and empire is Robert Rabil, |
| 0:45.9 | Rabel, who's a professor of political science at the Florida Atlantic University with an expertise |
| 0:50.6 | in U.S. foreign policy in Greater Middle East. And his latest book, which he was so kind to send me a while back is Lebanon and Turkey historical context and contemporary realities. |
| 1:02.6 | Welcome to Geopolitics and Empire, Robert. |
| 1:04.9 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:06.4 | Thank you. It's pleasure to be with you. Thank you. |
| 1:08.7 | We've spoken, I think, four times on my old... |
| 1:11.6 | Yes, at least. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, on my old TNC radio show. |
| 1:15.9 | TNT radio is no longer, but they may be coming back in a different form. |
| 1:20.0 | And the links to those discussions are in the podcast description, the archive, so people can check that if they would like. |
| 1:29.7 | And so much is going on. |
| 1:35.2 | And of course, I thought I'd bring you on geopolitics and empire to get your thoughts regarding what's happening in Syria. I just read today, Russian troops are departing. Assad is Moscow. |
| 1:42.0 | Erdogan, I think, is happy. What's your assessment? |
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