Syria: Prospects for Transition from Minority to Majority Rule

By Mark N. Katz on June 16, 2012 
E -International Relations

The Assad regime in Syria is not simply a dictatorship.  Largely drawn from Syria’s Alawite minority community (13% of the country’s population), the Assad regime is also the instrument through which this minority rules over the rest of the country—including the majority Sunni community (74% of the population).  This fact complicates the prospects for a democratic transition in Syria.

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