Authoritarian power and state formation in Ba'thist Syria: army, party, and peasant
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.