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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: struggle for power in Syria
    sub title: politics and society under Asad and the Baʻth Party
  name:
    name part: Dam, Nikolaos van.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    edition: Rev. 4th ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : map.
  abstract: This classic study of politics and society in modern Syria explains the factors that enabled the regime of Hafiz al-Asad to stay in power much longer than any other since independence. Through an in-depth examination of the role of sectarian, regional and tribal loyalties, van Dam traces developments within the Ba'th Party and the military and civilian power elite from the 1963 Ba'thist takeover up to the present day.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The rise of minorities in the Syrian armed forces and in the Ba'th Party -- Sectarian polarisation in the Syrian armed forces between Sunnis and religious minorities -- The purge of Druze officers in the Syrian armed forces -- The struggle for power within the Alawi community -- Sectarian and regional factionalism in the Syrian politica elite : a statistical analysis -- Sectarian provocation and confrontation -- Sectarian showdown : eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood -- The power elite under Hafiz al-Asad -- Conclusions -- Syrian Ba'thist memoirs.
  note: Nikolaos van Dam.
  note: Previous edition: 1996.
  note: Revised and updated paperback edition of the author's thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1977 which was originally published in 1979 as: The struggle for power in Syria : sectarianism, regionalism, and tribalism in politics, 1961-1971.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-sy---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Assad, Hafez
      name part: 1930-2000
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: Kings and rulers
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1971-2000
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2000-
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Syria)
  subject:
    topic: Minorities
    geographic: Syria
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hizb al-Bath al-Arabi al-Ishtiraki (Syria)
  classification: DS98.2 .D36 2011eb
  related item:
    title info:
      title: struggle for power in Syria
    name:
      name part: Dam, Nikolaos van.
    origin info:
      publisher: London : I. B. Tauris, 2011
      edition: Rev. 4th ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)663446388
  identifier: 9780857720535 (e-book)
  identifier: 0857720538 (e-book)
  identifier: 9781848857605
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: E7B
    record creation date: 120116
    record change date: 20250816204911.3
    record identifier: in00002753494
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng