Enduring ambiguity : Sunni community-Syrian regime dynamics

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dc.contributor.authorDONKER, Teije Hidde
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-19T12:47:21Z
dc.date.available2011-04-19T12:47:21Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThe paper's central thesis is that authoritarian regimes can benefit from the presence of domestic (Sunni) civil activism; through a social dynamic that creates an incentive for Sunni activists to actively approach regime actors. The article poses that they thereby imply a subservience to the regime and ascribe authority to it. This dynamic is a result of a social convention that outlines how bargaining, accommodation and coalition management between regime and Sunni actors should evolve. This convention emerges as reaction to the ambiguous nature of state repression vis-a-vis Sunni civil activism.
dc.identifier.citationMediterranean politics, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 435-452en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13629395.2010.517112
dc.identifier.endpage452
dc.identifier.issn1362-9395
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.startpage435
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/16446
dc.identifier.volume15
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofMediterranean politicsen
dc.titleEnduring ambiguity : Sunni community-Syrian regime dynamics
dc.typeArticleen
dspace.entity.typePublication
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