Syria by Abboud, Samer N. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication Acknowledgments Maps Abbreviations Introduction

Who are the Syrians? Unravelling the Conflict Structure of the Book: An Evolving Crisis

1: The Rise and Fall of the Ba'ath Party

From Ottoman to Mandate Politics French Rule and Independence From Independence to the United Arab Republic 1963 and the Rise of the Ba'ath Party The Ba'athist Coup The Corrective Revolution and the Consolidated State Fiscal Crisis and the “Liberalization” of Political and Economic Space Bashar's Rise Circumscribed Civil Society Prelude to an Uprising?

2: The Syrian Uprising

The Syrian Opposition Beginnings of the Uprising Social and Political Backgrounds of the Protesters LCCs and the Problem of Mobilization A New Civil Society The Syrian National Council Multiple Leaderships Authoritarian Adaptibility From Peaceful Protest to Violent Conflict?

3: The Emergence of Armed Opposition

Understanding Violence in the Syrian Context The Rise of the Free Syrian Army Networked Rebel Groups Jabhat an-Nusra and Other Islamist Fighters The PYD and the Kurdish Political Landscape The Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham (ISIS) Regime Violence: The NDF, Shabiha, and Regional Actors The Expansion of Violence

4: When the World Wades In

The Arab World Russia Iran Turkey The West Arming the Rebels Intervention and Non-Intervention Chemical Weapons The United Nations Security Council The Moscow Process A Global Conflict

5: Fragmentation

Rojava ISIS Areas Jabhat an-Nusra and the Salafist-Jihadist Network of Violence Southern Syria: The FSA's Last Bastion? The Interim Government: Failed Transition Sectarianism Social and Political Collapse

6: The Humanitarian Crisis

Economic Impacts of the Conflict Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Health Care Education Refugees in Lebanon Refugees in Turkey Refugees in Jordan Refugees in Iraq Europe and the Refugee Crisis Syrians Respond: Humanitarianism in Action The Syrian Tragedy

Conclusion: Prospects for Resolution

Approaches to Solving the Syrian Conflict Conclusion

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