Authoritarian Power and State Formation in Ba`thist Syria: Army, Party, and Peasant

by Raymond A. Hinnebusch

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 -...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367012650
• ISBN13: 9780367012656
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages