Authoritarianism in Syria : Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946–1970

Steven Heydemann

Cornell University Press

1999

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For almost forty years Syria has been ruled by a populist authoritarian regime under the Ba’th Party, led since 1970 by President Hafiz al-Asad. The durability and resilience of this regime is a striking contrast to the instability and intense social conflict that preceded the Bath’s seizure of power, when Syria was seen as among the least stable of Arab states. استمر في القراءة ←

Syria: The Revolution from Above

Raymond Hinnebusch

Routledge

2002

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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.

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