Projektnummer

0055746

Zusammenfassung

Power-sharing in multi-ethnic societies of the Middle East. What can Bahrain and Syria learn from Iraq and Lebanon? The research project compares four societies of the Arab East in which ethnic-sectarian divi-sions are strongly influencing political competition and conflict. In Syria and Bahrain as well as in Iraq until 2003, members of one ethnic or confessional community dominate(d) political power and enjoy(ed) privileged access to state resources. In these countries, the encounter between the regime defending its rule and the opposition demanding reforms or even the toppling of the...