atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/how-syria-can-avoid-the-trap-of-ethno-sectarianism How Syria can avoid the trap of ethno-sectarianism
Syria's new rulers are copying Iraq's power-sharing playbook, allocating posts by sect and ethnicity. That model bred deadlock and violence there, and the fix instead may lie in local governance, not quotas in Damascus.
— via Atlantic Council, Marie Forestier, Arthur Quesnay