Popular representation and democracy in Syria – end of `Alawite dictatorship’?

By Kristian GIRLING | Oriental Review | April 27, 2016 Introduction The Syrian parliamentary election of 13 April 2016 is demonstrative of the apparent and continuing plurality of Syrian society as manifested within the People’s Council – a parliamentary body which has often been regarded as merely a façade of legitimation for the ruling Baath […]

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