Description
The political opposition represented by the Syrian National Coalition and some aggregated anti-governmental groups intends to be an alternative to the Assad government. The role of opposition can be very important for the future being of a potential post-Assad state as it comprises varied ethnic, political and religious groups, and this diversity has the potential to transform into a national identity. Although, since the inception of the Syrian war, the opposition forces tried to exert and maintain control over covered territories, still, in terms of state policy vision, the sole clear strategic goal on their common agenda was to overthrow the current government and nothing more. Also, the efforts to unify the opposition voice was usually initiated and supported by the foreign actors (states, exiled Syrian businessmen and activists, Islamist groups) not by the opposition groups themselves. This shows that, if Assad govern collapses in these circumstances, there is no practical and commonly agreed political solutions among the opposition forces to replace the older one. Thus, in the given circumstances when the non-state Syrian opposition is not a monolith, but is rather fragmented structure, it raises the question how constructive the formulation and exertion of its foreign policy can be.
