Sectarianism and Civil War in Syria

Herausgeber: Hinnebusch, Raymond; Valbjørn, Morten

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As an epicentre of sectarian conflict before and after the Arab uprising, Syria provides an excellent laboratory for the study of sectarianization. This book compares variance in Syria's sectarianism over time and across place in order to expose its causes and its varying impact on Syria's society and polity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 784g
• ISBN-13: 9781032903798
• ISBN-10: 1032903791
• Artikelnr.: 71664791

Autorenporträt

Raymond Hinnebusch is a professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics at the University of St Andrews, Founder and Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies and Editor of Syria Studies. He has recently co-edited The War for Syria: Regional and International Dimensions of the Syrian Uprising (2019), and Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase: Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime Resilience (2022). Morten Valbjørn is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. He is a member of the advisory board of POMEPS: Project on Middle East Political Science and has been directing various international research projects, including SWAR: Sectarianism in the Wake of the Arab Revolts and TOI: Bringing in the Other Islamists.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Debates and Conceptualizations 1. Theorizing Sectarianism in Syria:
Toward a Framework of Analysis Part II. National Level Structure and
Dynamics 2. Identity and State Building Over Time: Political Institutions
and Syria's Sectarianism-Nationalism Balance 3. Mapping and Explaining
Sectarianization in the Syrian Uprising: The Dynamics of Regime-Opposition
Interaction at the Domestic Level 4. The Regional System and
Sectarianization in Syria 5. The Regime's Adaptation to Civil War:
Institutionalizing Sectarianism? 6. The Sectarianization of the Syrian
Uprising: The Jihadization of Opposition Governance Part III. Variations in
Sectarianization: Time, Place, and Group 7. Sectarianization in Homs and
Damascus: A Tale of Two Different Cities 8. Conflict in Aleppo: A Clash
Between Sects or Social Classes? 9. Hama and the Mobilization of Identity:
Urban-Rural Divisions and Sectarianization 10. Sectarianism and Islamist
Militarization in Idlib 11. Beyond Alawites and Sunnis: The Sectarian
Mosaic of Deir ez-Zor and al-Hasakah 12. Sectarianization and the State
among Druze Communities in Syria: Case Studies of Jaramana and Golan 13.
Sectarian Cohabitation in Syria's Coast, a Glimmer of Hope 14. Sectarianism
amongst Syrian Christians: Aleppo, Damascus, Daraa, Al-Hasakah, Maaloula
and Homs 15. Urbicide and Sectarianization in Syria: The Politics of Space
in Damascus and Aleppo Part IV. Theoretical Findings 16. Conclusion:
Exposing Patterns of Sectarianization in Syria