Description
| Product ID: | 9781108824170 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
| Title: | Revolution in Syria |
| Subtitle: | Identity, Networks, and Repression |
| Authors: | Author: Kevin Mazur |
| Page Count: | 300 |
| Subjects: | Middle Eastern history, Middle Eastern history, Sociology, Comparative politics, International relations, Sociology, Comparative politics, International relations |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book is for scholars of contentious politics, conflict, ethnicity, and the Middle East, as well as anyone seeking to understand the Syrian conflict. Using new quantitative data and Arabic-language sources, Mazur traces local trajectories of conflict and how they produced a civil war fought mostly along ethnic lines. How does protest advancing diverse claims turn into violent conflict occurring primarily along ethnic lines? This book examines that question in the context of Syria, drawing insight from the evolution of conflict at the local level. Kevin Mazur shows that the challenge to the Syrian regime did not erupt neatly along ethnic boundaries, and that lines of access to state-controlled resources played a critical structuring role; the ethnicization of conflict resulted from failed incumbent efforts to shore up network ties and the violence that the Asad regime used to crush dissent by challengers excluded from those networks. Mazur uses variation in the political and demographic characteristics of locales to explain regime strategies, the roles played by local intermediaries, the choice between non-violent and violent resistance, and the salience of ethnicity. By drawing attention to cross-ethnic ties, the book suggests new strategies for understanding ostensibly ethnic conflicts beyond Syria. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-07-08 |
