Syria: The Revolution from Above

Raymond Hinnebusch

Routledge

2002

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Description:

This study examines the development of the Syrian state as it has emerged under thirty-five years of military-Ba’thist rule and, particularly, under President Hafiz al-Asad. It analyzes the way in which the fragility of the post-independence state, unable to contain rising nationalist struggle and class conflict, opened the way to the Ba’th party’s rise to power and examines how the Ba’th’s ‘revolution from above’ transformed Syria’s socio-political terrain.

Contents:

Introduction: Conceptualizing the Syrian Ba’th State

1. The Formation of Modern Syria

2. The Ba’th Revolution (1963-1970)

3. Power and Politics under Asad

4. State-Society Relations under Asad

5. The Political Economy of Development

6. Syrian Foreign Policy