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

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.

List of contents

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.

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Raymond A Hinnebusch (Author)

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: HINNEBUSCH, Raymond A Hinnebusch, Raymond A. Hinnebusch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780367012656
• ISBN: 978-0-367-01265-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Political structure & processes, Regional Studies, Middle Eastern history, Regional / International studies, Political structure and processes