Enduring ambiguity : Sunni community-Syrian regime dynamics
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Mediterranean politics, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 435-452
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DONKER, Teije Hidde, Enduring ambiguity : Sunni community-Syrian regime dynamics, Mediterranean politics, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 435-452 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/16446
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The 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.