Ethan Corbin

Ethan Corbin is a doctoral candidate at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His dissertation focuses on Syrian alliances with regional armed groups under the al-Assad regime.

Fletcher Forum articles by Ethan Corbin:


Principals and Agents: Syria and the Dilemma of its Armed Group Allies

May 15, 2011 by Ethan Corbin

The recent wave of domestic revolts moving east from the Maghreb to engulf the Levant and the Arab peninsula in the past few months is sparing few Arab states. The long-standing Ba’thist regime of the al-Assad family in Syria is no exception. As the initially isolated protests in the southern town of Dara’a spread throughout [...]

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