The Syrian civil war poses many important geopolitical questions, such as what to do about the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons, the fate of millions of displaced people and refugees and the appropriate role of the “international community” in resolving and preventing such conflicts. This article provides an analysis of Syria's history and civil conflict, geographic context, current global system, and conflict resolution in the context of the progressive and critical geopolitical approaches presented by Dodds and Kearns. The synthesis reveals that the critical and progressive geopolitical approach is sufficient to dissect the issues posed by the Syrian civil war. However, in practice it is impossible to avoid falling into the trap of what Donna Haraway describes as the perpetuation of cultural narratives. Feminist scholar Donna Haraway points out that, through the lens of realism, historical studies of the world system have created certain narratives about international relations. policies that are clearly more important than others. Our current political-ideological construct is presented with shades of realism on which Western liberal democracies were founded and strongly influences our perspective on global issues. The threefold division of critical geopolitics attempts to dismantle these constructions. Practical geopolitics refers to “policy-oriented geographic models used by political leaders such as President Bush as they represent global politics (Kearns, 2009).” Formal geopolitics is concerned with how intellectuals identify American realism in the art of government. Popular geopolitics considers how ordinary citizens make sense of geopolitical issues produced and reproduced through popular media. provide a peaceful, cultural and ethnic solution. Works Cited (2013) “Middle East: Syria Profile”. BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14703995 Web accessed: March 15, 2014 (2013) “Population by year, by province and territory (number)”. Statistics Canada: Government of Canada. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo02a-eng.htm Accessed March 15, 2014 (2014) “Best sites”. Alexa Top 500 Global Sites. Amazon. http://www.alexa.com/topsites Web accessed March 19, 2014Donnelly, J. (2005) Universal Human Rights in New Delhi Theory and Practice: Manas in collaboration with Cornell UP. Kearns, G. (2009) “Progressive Geopolitics”. Geopolitics and empire: the legacy of Halford Mackinder Oxford: University of Oxford..