Introduction
Chapter 1: The Bitter Harvest: Ten Years of Bashar al-Assad’s Rule
Chapter 2: From Spark to Fire
Chapter 3: Protests in the Main Squares
Chapter 4: Masses in the Cities: A Revolutionary Movement in Damascus and Aleppo
Chapter 5: An Armed Revolution
Chapter 6: The Regime’s Strategy
Chapter 7: Ruralization of the Party and Sectarianization of the Army: The Origins of Sectarian Discourse and Violence
Chapter 8: Sectarian Violence Unleashed
Chapter 9: Violence: Between Revolutionary Violence and Remnants from Previous Eras
Chapter 10: The Opposition
Chapter 11: New Actors
Chapter 12: Initiatives for a Political Solution and the International Positions
Chapter 13: The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Syria’s Macroeconomy
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5