From The Hill:
Secretary of State John Kerry affirmed that once an agreement has been reached over how to dispose of Syria’s cache of chemical weapons, the U.S. and Russia will attempt to forge a political solution to Syria’s civil war.  The logistics surrounding a chemical weapons deal will be tricky enough.  Any deal will have to ensure weapons inspectors’ unfettered access to suspected chemical weapons storage sites. However, arranging a ceasefire will be even harder for three reasons that the Obama administration may prefer to ignore: #1:  Most ceasefires and power-sharing deals fail. [Wolf is a researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he is completing a project on authoritarian political survival and peacemaking in the Middle East.  He has been published in International Security, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The Houston Chronicle, Survival, and World Policy Journal, among other publications.]

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