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The first topic: Syrian crisis

THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.75, # 2, 2018, pp. 25-46

That the Syrian crisis is still the most important developments in the Arab world, as it
revealed that all the different scenarios and potential for the situation in Syria is still
on the table, which is a significant impact on regional stability, with the growing
activity of jihadist groups in Syria Reflecting the extreme Salafi activity in the region
in general.

The developments witnessed by the levels of the Syrian crisis, both in terms of the
political mobility of opposition forces both at home and abroad, have been linked to
the reversal of events on geostrategic variables. The place has become a major role in
many events in Syria in particular and in the region in general, In light of this, we
must focus on the causes of the crisis on the one hand, and its repercussions on the
other, as follows:

First demands: The causes of the Syrian crisis.
The second demand: the developments of the Syrian crisis.

First requirement: The causes of the Syrian crisis

That the Sykes-Picot agreement imposed on Syrian public opinion borders that could
not be accepted, which led to a weak sense of allegiance to the Qatari state in many
citizens, which led them to the trend to search for other sources of national identity
outside the borders of the Syrian territory, The identities of the two groups differed
between three directions: Arab nationalism, national Syria, and the need to revive the
Islamic caliphate. At the same time, however, the Syrians maintained loyalty to the
region, the community and sometimes the family played a negative role in times of
crisis. We see that the terms "like, Clan, sect "became strongly back to appear on the
political stage of the current events [Bishara, Azmi (2011)].

3.Causes of the crisis

1- The nature of the system of government:

The Ba'athist Socialist Party was the exclusive party to the hegemony of power and
the monopoly of the exercise of political action in certain sectors of society under
article 8 of the Constitution, which stipulates that "the Ba'ath Socialist Arab Party is
the leading party in society and the state and leads a progressive national front that
works to unite the energies of the people, The goals of the Arab nation, "and thus put
red lines in front of the other parties in the exercise of political work in the Syrian
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