Syria Studies

Bibliography Author: Samer Bakkour

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In the course of the Syrian Civil War, prominent former Syrian Regime politicians, human rights observers, and foreign observers have accused the Syrian Regime of committing genocide against the country’s Sunni majority. This article views these accusations as part of a wider politicization of genocide, and instead progresses beyond them

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While state failure was undoubtedly a factor in, and influence on, the uprising, it has become more clearly apparent in the ongoing civil war. The Syrian state can now be said to be ‘failed’ because it cannot meet its citizens’ economic, political and social needs and requirements. This apparent regression