This extended essay investigates the meaning of imperialism in Syria providing a valuable
addition to the ongoing debate on the Syrian crisis through the lens of imperialism modern
warfare and geopolitics. It offers a detailed analysis of how the Syrian war has been the
product of imperialist ambitions. The author begins by situating the Syrian conflict in the
regional historical continuum positing that the modern imperialist war visited upon Syria is
both a production domain intrinsic to capital and an application of the law of value assuming
a highly destructive form. Such processes particularly the measure of war as a component of
accumulation by waste and militarism are peculiar to the imperialism of the United States
which the author argues is the sole imperialist power at play in Syria and globally. With so
many international forces vying with one another in this country and some prominent Western
scholars equally ascribing imperialism to the US Russia and China defining who the
imperialist is can help to clear some of the fog in the war of positions as a misplaced or
ideologically motivated assessment can provide the wrong party with a justification for
prolonging the war. This book will be of interest to academics in the social sciences and
Middle Eastern studies but will also appeal to all readers with an interest in patterns of
global development postcolonialism and neoliberal imperialism.
