Authoritarian Power And State Formation In Ba`thist Syria: Army, Party, And Peasant

by Raymond A Hinnebusch

Overview

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. Dr Hinnebusch aims to show how the Ba'th's road to power shaped its ideology and the character of its rule. Attention is then given to the pillars of state power - the army, political organizations and the peasantry. The author concludes that the regime has pursued a dual strategy for maintaining power - placing kin and clientelist networks at the levers of coercive power and building structures based on the mass incorporation of the rural population.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429722097
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Raymond A Hinnebusch (Author)

Table 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.