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Caroline Rose

Caroline Rose

Caroline Rose is a researcher and analyst based in New York City. She is a director at the New Lines Institute, where she conducts work on defense, crime and security in the Middle East.

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How Assad’s Trade in Captagon Fueled His Downfall

How Assad’s Trade in Captagon Fueled His Downfall

The Assad regime’s manipulation of the Captagon trade, combining industrial-scale production with carefully crafted counternarcotics rhetoric, staged seizures and inflated statistics, gave the illusion of a crackdown. But the regime’s reliance on Captagon to reinforce its hold on power prompted a backlash from neighboring states and hastened its collapse.

Caroline Rose