EXTERNAL ACTORS AND THEIR INTERESTS AS FACTORS OF CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA (SPRING 2011 – SPRING 2014)

Abstract

The civil war in Syria led to the emergence of new players in the Syrian political, ideological, economic and arms market, and in the event of the fall of the Assad regime, it can be assumed that Russia will lose the rest of influence in the region and will cease to be the main supplier of arms to Syria, and its place will be taken by the victorious Western countries. Pro-Western Syria will mean the end of the of Russian influence, and will allow the United States to increase pressure on Iran, extending Washington the possibilities of antyiranian game in the region. At the same time, there is also concern that the new after-Assad government in Damascus will be faced with similar problems of disintegration of the state, as is the case of Iraq and become the next place of fight between the moderate forces and Islamic extremists, conducting war with the West and its values. And above all, Syria is a battleground between not only internal political and religious groups but also the field of play between the United States, Israel, Western countries and Russia, the United States and Iran, Shiites and Sunnis, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.