Syria can’t afford to break apart

ENAR

As violence expands across Syria, fears over the future of the country are increasing. They range from the potential use of chemical weapons in the conflict to the unleashing of a full-fledged sectarian war and to the potential disintegration and partition of the country along sectarian and ethnic lines. Regarding the latter risk, it is likely that economic factors will play an important role in terms of its impact on the centralization/decentralization debate and on how any future partition of the country could affect economic policies. See also: Could a Syrian Kurdistan work? Trade between Iran and Syria increasing The issue that comes first to the mind is obviously the north-eastern part of Syria, inhabited to a large extent by a Kurdish population. While prior to the conflict the demands of the Kurds were mainly limited to linguistic and cultural rights, there are now increasing calls for the creation of