Assad’s Fall and the Qatari Gas Pipeline: A Risky Bet or Potential Source of Relief?

Future Security Program Fellow Jeremy Hodge wrote with Arizona State University Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of the MA in Global Security program Alicia Ellis on Assad's fall and Qatar's gas line plans in Syria for the Small Wars Journal.

Two days after the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Turkish Energy Minister Alpraslan Bayraktar announced that  Ankara was considering resuming construction of a pipeline that linked Qatar’s North Field gas reserves to Turkey’s Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) network via Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. The announcement was largely drowned out over the next several weeks by the flurry of diplomatic delegations that visited Syria and pledges by foreign governments to provide aid and renewed investments to revive the country’s ailing economy.

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