Overview
Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the Syrian crisis
Makes understanding Syria's complex inner workings accessible to a broader readership
Examines the historical background that has laid the objective conditions for Syria’s descent to its current situation
Provides a holistic picture of Syria’s developmental trajectory from the early twentieth century through to the present day
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Historical Perspective of the Syrian Conflict
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The Politics of the Syrian Conflict
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Sectoral Analysis
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Neoliberalism
- Proxy War
- The Arab Spring
- Russia
- The Middle East
- Heterodox Economics
- The Political Economy of War
- Syria's Macroeconomic Framework
- French Imperialism
- Beirut
- Lebanon
- Hezbollah
- The Syrian Conflict
- Syria
- Syrian Agriculture
- The Ba’ath Party
- Arab Nationalism
- Iran
- China
- Security and Development
About this book
This edited collection aims to analytically reconceptualise the Syrian crisis by examining how and why the country has moved from a stable to a war-torn society. It is written by scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, all of whom make no attempt to speculate on the future trajectory of the conflict, but aim instead to examine the historical background that has laid the objective conditions for Syria’s descent to its current situation. Their work represents an attempt to dissect the multi-layered foundation of the Syrian conflict and to make understanding its complex inner workings accessible to a broader readership. The book is divided into four parts, each of which elaborates on the origins and dynamics of today’s crisis from the perspective of a different discipline. When put together, the four parts provide a holistic picture of Syria’s developmental trajectory from the early twentieth century through to the present day. Themes addressed include Syria’s postcolonial development efforts, its leap into socialism and then into neoliberalism in the late twentieth century, its politics within the resistance front, and finally its food and health security concerns.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Linda Matar is Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also Lecturer at the NUS’s College of Alice and Peter Tan. Her research interests include the political economy of the Arab Near East and Southeast Asia. She is the author of The Political Economy of Investment in Syria (2016).
Ali Kadri is Senior Fellow at the NUS and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, UK. His recent publications include The Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Syria: From National Independence to Proxy War
Editors: Linda Matar, Ali Kadri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98458-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98457-5Published: 20 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07496-8Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98458-2Published: 09 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 296
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Conflict Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, International Political Economy, Development and Social Change