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• Title: Creating Consent in Ba'thist Syria
• Author : Esther Meininghaus
• Release Date : January 31, 2016
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Politics & Current Events,Political Science,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 13087 KB

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The challenge of maintaining dictatorial regimes through control, co-optation and

coercion while upholding a façade of legitimacy is something that has concerned

leaders throughout the Middle East and beyond. Nowhere is this more evident

than in the Syria ruled by the Asads, both Hafiz and his son Bashar. Drawing on

the example of the General Union of Syrian Women (founded in 1967), Esther

Meininghaus offers new insights into how the Syrian Ba?thist regimes attempted

to move beyond mere satisfaction with the compliance of the citizenry and to

consolidate their rule amongst the local population. Meininghaus argues that this

was partially achieved through providing welfare services delivered by the Union as

one of the state-led mass organisations. In this way, she suggests, these regimes

did not only aim to undermine opposition and to create the illusion of consent, but

they factually catered to local needs and depended on consent. Based on archival

material, interviews and statistics, Creating Consent in Ba?thist Syria will shed

new light on mass organisations as a crucial institution of Ba?thist state building,

the construction of the Asad regimes more broadly, and the implications of these

findings for the current war.

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