
Syria: Balancing State Authority and Plural Sensitivities
Michel Touma, 21/07 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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In the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, French author and political analyst Alain Minc published a book with a strikingly evocative title that captured the spirit of the moment: The Revenge of Nations. He argued that decades of highly centralized communist rule had failed to erase the national sentiments of populations ...