Middle Eastern Studies

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The French in Syria -- Initial Confrontations, 1920-1924 -- The Great Revolt, 1925-1927 -- The National Bloc & Urban Leadership -- Honorable Cooperation, 1928-1933 -- New Approaches, 1933-1936 -- Nationalists in Government, 1937-1939 -- War & Independence, 1939-1945

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War & the Advent of French Rule: a Crisis of Paternity -- Paternal Republicanism & the Construction of Subaltern Citizens -- Gender & the Legal Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order -- Gendering the Public: Spatial Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order -- World War II & the Transformation of the Colonial Civic Order

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"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. He shows how the period of profound social change that followed 1963 saw the rise of the Islamic minority communities in national politics and the transformation of the lives of people from the countryside. Particular attention is given to issues such as the implications for Syria's future of the monopolization of power by Asad and his Alawi-dominated officers' faction; Sunni opposition to the regime; and the evolution of Syrian politics through the 1980s and 90s."

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Conceptualizing the Syrian Ba'th State -- The Formation of Modern Syria -- The Ba'th Revolution from Above (1963-70) -- Power & Politics under Asad -- State-Society Relations under Asad -- The Political Economy of Development -- Syrian Foreign Policy

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"Drawing upon a variety of original sources and newly released documents, the author discusses still little-known episodes in relations between the countries such as Syrian peace offers to Israel in the early 1950s and mid-1970s; American and Soviet involvement; the role of Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and the PLO; Israel's contribution to the aggravation of the conflict with Syria, and the new Syrian diplomatic strategy since 1988 and the peacemaking process after the Madrid Conference (from late 1991)."

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