Syria's Future: Islamist Republic, Turkish Client State, or Jihadist Stronghold?

Post-revolutionary states are not only in political but also strategic flux. Their regional alignments and perceptions of threats and security change with the coming and going of political regimes. Post-Assad Syria is no different. Shorn of a government that aligned itself against the United States and Israel in favor of Russia and Iran, Damascus must now reorganize its strategic alignments better to suit its current imperatives of stabilization and consolidation. But which alignments will it choose?...