Demokratyczny konfederalizm jako alternatywny ustrój dla Autonomicznej Administracji Północnej i Wschodniej Syrii

• Authors: Adamczyk Anita , Jomma Fuad

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Democratic Confederalism as an Alternative Regime for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is an attempt to present the regime of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria as an alternative to the entire state. It explores the ideology of Abdullah Öcalan, which is the foundation of this regime. It also analyses the systemic assumptions characteristic of the democratic autonomy in Rojava, and then in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The thesis of the article is that the proposal for a new regime is a huge challenge for the people of these parts of Syria, President Bashar al-Assad and the international environment, in particular Turkey. The success of this project is difficult to assess as it depends on too many variables of an internal and international nature.

Keywords

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democratic confederalism; Abdullah Öcalan; Rojava; Syria; social contract

• Publisher: Kancelaria Sejmu / Chancellery of the Sejm
• Journal: Przegląd Sejmowy
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 3(170)
• Pages: 23–42

Contributors

author

Adamczyk Anita

• Dr hab. Anita Adamczyk, prof. UAM Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa, Polska Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Poland [e-mail], https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2851-0200

author

Jomma Fuad

• Dr hab. Fuad Jomma, prof. US Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Instytut Nauk o Polityce i Bezpieczeństwie, Polska University of Szczecin, Institute of Political Science and Security Studies, Poland [e-mail], https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7981-7114

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31268/PS.2022.110