What happens when a tyrant flees
What's next for Syria, Assad, and the wider region?

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Marcel Dirsus is a political scientist and the author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive (2024). He writes The Hundred, a politics newsletter.
What's next for Syria, Assad, and the wider region?
Like many tyrants before him, the Syrian dictator will live his life on the run – and die in…
By Marcel Dirsus