The one-year anniversary of the uprising against the Assad regime in Syria this week reveals why such regimes have persisted for so many decades in the Arab world, and also why they are doomed to collapse.
We now see more clearly the four trends that have defined Syria since March 2011: the continued expansion, intensity and sophistication of the domestic populist uprising against the regime; the regime’s sustained use of brutal force against nonviolent demonstrators and the armed militants trying to topple it; the erratic nature and impact of the Syrian political opposition abroad; and the perplexity of the outside world about how to react to the events in the country.
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