Authoritarian power and state formation in Bathist Syria: army, party, and peasant

Abstract

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.