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1 online resource (198 pages) |
| Series |
Hot Spots in Global Politics Ser |
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Hot Spots in Global Politics Ser
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| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; Hot Spots in Global Politics; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; Who are the Syrians?; A war of narratives; Unraveling the conflict; Structure of the book; What's new in this edition; 1: The Rise and Fall of the Ba'ath Party; From Ottoman to Mandate politics; French rule and independence; From independence to the United Arab Republic; 1963 and the rise of the Ba'ath Party; The Ba'athist coup; The corrective revolution and the consolidated state |
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Fiscal crisis and the "liberalization" of political and economic spaceBashar's rise; Circumscribed civil society; Conclusion; 2: The Syrian Uprising; The Syrian opposition; Beginnings of the uprising; Social and political backgrounds of the protesters; LCCs and the problem of mobilization; A new civil society; The Syrian National Council; Multiple leaderships; Authoritarian adaptability; Conclusion; 3: Networks of Violence; Understanding violence in the Syrian context; The rise of the Free Syrian Army; Networked rebel groups; Jabhat al-Nusra and other Islamist fighters |
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The PYD and the Kurdish political landscapeThe Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham (ISIS); Regime violence: local and regional actors; Conclusion; 4: Before Aleppo: Stalemate and Fragmentation; When the world wades in; The Arab world; Russia; Iran; Turkey; The West; Major dividing issues: Arming the rebels and intervention; Arming the rebels; On intervention and non-intervention; Fragmentation; Rojava/DFNS; ISIS areas; Jabhat an-Nusra and the Salafist-jihadist network of violence; Conclusion; 5: After Aleppo: Breaking the Stalemate; Failure of peace efforts; The United Nations Security Council |
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Geneva IGeneva II; Local freezes?; The Moscow Process; Russian intervention; The Battle of Aleppo; Impacts of the Russian intervention; The rise of the SDF; Geneva, Astana, and beyond; Conclusion: Internationalizing Syria's future beyond the stalemate; Conclusion: The Coming Authoritarian Peace; Between liberal and authoritarian peace; Syria's authoritarian peace; Regional suzerainty; In with the old, out with the new; Regional conflict complex; De-escalation and continued conflict; Socioeconomic deprivation; Conflict legacies; Fragmentation; Social and humanitarian crisis; Reconstruction |
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ConclusionAfterword; References; Index; End User License Agreement |
| Summary |
In this fully revised second edition of his acclaimed text, Samer Abboud provides an in-depth analysis of Syria's descent into civil war, the subsequent stalemate, and the consequences of Russian military involvement after 2015 |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781509522446 |
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1509522441 |
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