Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs
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Abstract

The Incomplete Democracy and the Onset of War, Causes and Consequences: A Case Study of Syria

Ahmed Bux Jamali

The war is not essentially the absence of peace but the incomplete performances of key components and determinants of a sovereign state. In this contemporary international relation, state interaction revolves around the dependency of both friends and foes to gain vital national interests. Different states face wars in different scenarios based on their domestic manufacturing and the concepts of state building to tackle the destructions and upcoming worst-case scenario. Apart from political leadership, there has always been an external factor that plays a systemic
role to disrupt the peace and stability of the state. In order to understand that particular factor, the author has applied the Mansfield and Jack Snyder’s scholarly idea of incomplete democracy that outbreak the war to help further understand the ongoing Syrian crisis.
The main focus of this article is to understand and evaluate the democracy as systemic factor that is playing a significant role to an unending war in Syria even today. The weak and fragile political institutions accompanied by international pressure to overthrow the Assad’s autocratic regime adds more fuel to fire not only for the peace and stability of the middle eastern but also dispersed among the European countries as refugee’s crisis. The author claims that, democracy as a systemic factor doesn’t mean complete efficient form of government to satisfy the needs and demands of a common citizen. It further brings more destructions and devastations that a state can never expect in this globalized world.