Routledge/St. Andrews Syrian Studies Series
About the Book Series
This series aims to be the major venue for the dissemination of research on modern Syria. Although it will not neglect Syria’s past, the focus is on the current conflict. It showcases work that locates cutting edge empirical research within innovative theoretical frameworks from all disciplines on, for example, social movements, civil wars, intervention, identity conflicts, failed states, post-war reconstruction, authoritarian resilience, and non-state governance.
Sectarianism and Civil War in Syria
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Hinnebusch, Morten Valbjørn
April 14, 2025
As an epicentre of sectarian conflict before and after the Arab uprising, Syria provides an excellent laboratory for the study of sectarianization. This book compares variance in Syria’s sectarianism over time and across place to expose its causes and its varying impact on Syria’s society and ...
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party
1st Edition
By Sulayman N. Khalaf
January 09, 2023
Studying a rural village in northern Syria during a period of tremendous social and political change (1940s to 1970s), this book offers a unique perspective on how agrarian transformations in land distribution and its use deeply affected social and political relations among a rural community. ...
Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase: Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Jasmine Gani, Raymond Hinnebusch
March 18, 2022
This volume covers the "middle" time period of the Syrian uprising, roughly from 2012 when Syria’s peaceful protest began to mutate into a violent insurgency and civil war until roughly 2018 when the conflict took on features of a "frozen conflict". The middle period was important as one of key ...
Syrian Foreign Policy: The Alliances of a Regional Power
1st Edition
By Francesco Belcastro
December 18, 2020
Examining Syrian foreign policy during the Ba’th years from 1963 to 1989, this book traces the alliances of the Levantine country from a historical perspective and in the context of recent political developments. Syrian Foreign Policy analyses the pivotal alliances of Damascus using a theoretical ...
The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria: The Democratic Option of Islamism
1st Edition
By Naomí Ramírez Díaz
December 18, 2020
Anyone who follows world events has heard of the Muslim Brotherhood. Usually considered a fundamentalist religious organisation opposed to secular regimes, the so-called Arab Spring began to challenge this conception, and showed the MB’s commitment to democratic principles and elections, albeit ...
State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns
1st Edition
By Haian Dukhan
September 30, 2020
State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns explores the policies of the successive Syrian governments towards the Arab tribes and their reactions to these policies. The book examines the consequences of the relationship between state and tribe since the fall of the Ottoman ...
The War for Syria: Regional and International Dimensions of the Syrian Uprising
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Hinnebusch, Adham Saouli
July 22, 2019
Examining the international dimensions of the Syrian conflict, this book studies external factors relating to the Uprising. It explores the involvement of outside powers and the events’ impact both on regional and international level. Syria was widely perceived to be essential to the regional ...
The Syrian Uprising: Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Hinnebusch, Omar Imady
February 07, 2018
Most observers did not expect the Arab spring to spread to Syria, for a number of seemingly good reasons. Yet, with amazing rapidity, massive and unprecedented anti-regime mobilization took place, which put the regime very much on the defensive; what began as the Syrian Uprising in March 2011 has ...