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Commanding Syria: Basher al-Asad and the first years in power
In: Library of modern Middle East studies series, 60
"When Bashar al-Asad became President of Syria in June 2000, he had a tough act to follow. A quiet, unassuming ophthalmologist, trained in Britain, young Asad was successor to his dynamic, wily father Hafiz, who had consolidated power in his ethnically diverse and politically restive state through personal charisma, brute force and political balancing acts." "This is the first major work on Bashar al-Sad. It explains his emergence to power from the Byzantine manoeuvering of Asad family politics. It assesses the durability of Hafiz's legacy, including the persistent influence of the old power-brokers, the effectiveness of Bashar's attempts to move away from his father's shadow, and the prospects for reform in Syria. It examines the key events of Bashar's Presidency - the so-called "Damascus Spring', the decision not to support America's second war with Iraq in 2003, and the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri, and puts them into historical and political context. Above all Commanding Syria evaluates Bashar's continuing hold on power following Syria's humiliating retreat from Lebanon in Spring 2005 and the aggressive American drive to impose democracy in the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET
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Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon , by Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian and Nadya Sbaiti (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022), 242 pp., $90 (hardcover); $28 ...
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 60, Heft 1, S. 155-158
ISSN: 1743-7881
Asad's autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers: by Moshe Ma'oz (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023), 165 pp., £24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-78976-199-3
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 59, Heft 5, S. 860-862
ISSN: 1743-7881
Israel in the Middle East 75 years on
In: Israel affairs, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 459-472
ISSN: 1743-9086
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem: by Azmi Bishara (London: I. B. Tauris, 2021), 408 pp., £85 (hardback); £76.50 (ebook). ISBN 978-0-7556-4542-8; 9780755645435
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 59, Heft 4, S. 685-690
ISSN: 1743-7881
The future of petroleum in Lebanon: energy, politics and economic growth
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 178-180
ISSN: 1743-7881
Rethinking Syrian nationalism: national identity and state in Syria, from the 'struggle for Syria' to the Syrian civil war
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 58, Heft 3, S. 421-434
ISSN: 1743-7881
Quagmire in Civil War by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 340pp, £24.99 (paperback). ISBN-13:978-1108486767.nb
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 57, Heft 4, S. 689-692
ISSN: 1743-7881
Russia in Syria: a long road to victory
In: Strategic Assessment, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 3-18
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Just a media event?
In: Middle East quarterly, Band 28, Heft 3
ISSN: 1073-9467
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