Authoritarian Power and State Formation in Ba`thist Syria: Army, Party, and Peasant

ISBN-13: 9780367012656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 360 str.

Raymond A. Hinnebusch

Opis

The social and economic forces that worked together to bring the Ba'thist party to power in 1963: the failure of traditional and liberal leadership, an agrarian crisis, the development of party ideology, the politicization of the army and rural mobilization - are examined in this study.

Spis treści

Political theory and the Syrian Ba'th case; lord and peasant in traditional Syria; the historical roots of system crisis; the crisis of the traditional order; social change and conflict; the genesis of a counter-elite and the struggle for power; the formation of the Ba'th regime; the pillars of state power - army, party and bureaucracy; state-society linkage - the case of the peasant union; state and village - rural politics, social change and peasant incorporation; political Islam - sectarian conflict and urban opposition under the Ba'th; authoritarian populism and state formation under the Ba'th.

O autorze

Raymond A Hinnebusch (Author)