Betrayal of the homeland : disloyal subjects in wartime Syria / Samer Abboud.
| Author/creator | Abboud, Samer Nassif author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2026] |
| Description | xiv, 245 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Columbia studies in Middle East politics Columbia studies in Middle East politics. ^A1180322 |
| Contents | Introduction -- The Astana process and the regional context of conflict management -- The spectral terrorist as state enemy -- The reconciliation process : transforming enemies into friends -- Settling friends, unsettling enemies : the settlement process and civilian subjectivity -- Absence as disloyalty -- The regime falls : managing Syria's transition -- Conclusion : authoritarian conflict management and its legacies. |
| Abstract | "This book asks how the Syrian regime has managed conflict in the country since the outbreak of protests in 2011 and the subsequent civil war that has engulfed Syria ever since. Drawing on literature on authoritarian conflict management, illiberal state-building, and state repression in the Middle East, this book argues that the Syrian regime has managed the conflict through a set of policy decisions that bifurcate society into the loyal and disloyal and which enact violence, enmity, and punishment against the latter. These policy decisions are rooted in discourses of treason, disloyalty, and abandonment that underpin legal and political structures that punish segments of the Syrian population deemed disloyal. The absorption of war's logic into the state has produced three principal mechanisms underpinning its approach to conflict management: a reconciliation process that tries to transform former fighters from enemies into friends; new legal regimes that punish absentee/unsettled citizens; and a settlement process that functions as a loyalty test for displaced Syrians to return to the country. This book shows how these three mechanisms have materialized in the context of the Syrian war and the implications for how these forms of conflict management shape post-conflict illiberal state-building"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Abboud, Samer Betrayal of the homeland New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2026 9780231564595 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780231564595 |
| LCCN | 2025031979 |
| ISBN | 9780231215336 |
| ISBN | 9780231215329 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0231215320 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0231215339 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | ePDF |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000338663 |
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