The internal conflict in Syria and the legal imperatives of the ‘Assad must go’ doctrine have brought to the fore the issue of government legitimacy. This article examines the ‘de-legitimisation/legitimisation process’, meaning the denial of the legitimacy of a government from the perspective of the international community, in favor of the attribution of legitimacy to another entity. The main argument is that government legitimacy is determined on the basis of a combination of objective and legal criteria at the domestic and international level. When the objective criteria are contested by opposition forces to a significant extent, the international community needs to answer the question: who must be recognised as the legitimate government? Having set out the criteria for such a decision, I then examine the de-legitimisation of the Syrian government and the recognition of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people by regional organisations and by Member States of the UN.

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检验“阿萨德必须走”学说

叙利亚的内部冲突和“阿萨德必须走”学说的法律要求使政府合法性问题成为重要问题。本文研究了“去合法化/合法化过程”，即从国际社会的角度否认政府合法性，赞成将合法性归于另一实体。主要论点是，政府合法性是根据国内和国际两级的客观和法律标准确定的。当客观标准在很大程度上遭到反对派力量的质疑时，国际社会需要回答这个问题：谁必须被承认为合法政府？列出了做出此类决定的标准之后，