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Syria After Assad

 The Arab Spring is finally bringing down the House of Assad.  The collapse of the Assad dynasty portends either a successor government holding sway over the whole of the country or, as in late twentieth century Lebanon, ethno-religious cantons ruling definable geographic fractions of the country perhaps under a façade of central governance.  Such alternatives, whatever their exact permutations suggest Syria will continue to struggle for stability. Video: 2013 Clashes between FSA and SAA fight from house to house.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8uo3R3pmqsPropping Up the Assad GovernmentA calculus of Syria’s civil war should rely neither on battlefield fluctuations nor the political affectations of the participants. Militias with barely more than tens of dozens of men under arms refer to themselves as battalions and self-proclaimed military councils emerge commanding little more than the immediate precincts of their residence. Nonetheless throughout 2012 Bashar…

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Carl Wege

Carl Wege

Carl Anthony Wege is a Professor of Political Science at the College of Coastal Georgia. He has been employed at the Library of Congress and teaches courses in American Government, Constitutional Law...