Joseph Daher

Syria after the Uprisings (eBook, ePUB)

The Political Economy of State Resilience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Syria has been at the centre of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent repression. Eight years on, Joseph Daher analyses the resilience of the regime and the failings of the uprising, while also taking a closer look at the counter-revolutionary processes that have been undermining the uprising from without and within.

Through a sharp reconstruction of the key historical developments, Daher focuses on the reasons behind the transition of a peaceful uprising into a destructive war with multiple regional and international actors. He argues that other approaches have so far neglected a global analysis of the conflict's economic, social and political characteristics. He also shows that it is impossible to understand the Syrian uprising without a historical perspective dating back to the seizure of power by Hafez al-Assad in 1970.

A result of years of research and discussions with activists, students, members of political parties and Syrian academics, this book will be the go-to analysis of Syria for years to come.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786804648
• Artikelnr.: 56953909

Autorenporträt

Joseph Daher teaches at Lausanne University, Switzerland and is a part time affiliate professor at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy). He is the author of Syria after the Uprisings (Pluto, 2019) and Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God (Pluto, 2016). He is the co-editor of Penser l'emancipation (La Dispute, 2013) and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Construction of a Patrimonial Regime
2. Popular Uprising and Militarization
3. The Regime's Repression
4. The Failure of the Opposition: The Challenges of Fundamentalism and
Sectarianism
5. The Kurdish Question in Syria
6. Syria, International Relations, and Interventions
7. War Economy, Reconstruction, and Challenges
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index