Vejas Liulevicius is a professor of history and director of the Center of the Study of War at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/vejas-liulevicius/rss en Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Vejas Liulevicius https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/05/07/foreign-affairs-on-fact-finding-in-syria https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/05/07/foreign-affairs-on-fact-finding-in-syria The following is an excerpt from a piece in Foreign Affairs entitled “Fact-Finding in Syria: How to Gather Intelligence in a War Zone.” In the magazine’s May 2 issue, writer Vejas Liulevicius discusses the difficulties of gathering hard evidence in a country so profoundly closed off from the outside world. .