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

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.