内容摘要： 本文探讨了在中东地区少数者统治政权的现象，包括巴林，叙利亚和以色列/巴勒斯坦。本文回顾了，在每个国家，少数者统治是何建立的，机制是如何保持的，以及如何合法化的。虽然这些统治政权通常不作为同一个类型分析，但它们具有共同的重要特征。在这三个国家，国家的政治和安全机构是由一个由国家少数人构成的民族的或宗教的团体控制，这损害了多数人的利益。当这些政权用于限制对权力获取的立法和政治机制发生变化时，他们用类似的策略将少数人的统治合法化，这表示，民主不仅是到政权生存的威胁，而且也威胁着代表它的利益的集团的安全。
 

Abstract: This article examines the phenomenon of minoritarian regimes in the Middle East, focusing on Bahrain, Syria and Israel/Palestine. It considers, in each, how minority rule was established, the mechanisms through which it is maintained, and the means through which it is legitimated. Although these regimes are not typically analyzed as a category, they have important features in common. In all three, the state's political and security institutions are controlled by members of an ethnic/religious group that is a numerical minority in the country, at the expense of a majority group with a competing claim to indigeneity. While the legal and political mechanisms that these regimes use to restrict access to power vary, they employ similar strategies for legitimating minority rule, presenting democracy as a threat not only to the regime's survival, but also to the security of the group whose interests it claims to represent.
 

作者：Omar M. Dajani(著), 周学文(译)

来源： 《Ethnic and Racial Studies，Volume 38, Issue 14, 》 2015年 第14期