Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics.
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Chichester, Princeton (N.J.) :
Princeton University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- I - The peasants' socioeconomic conditions
- The role of demographics
- Differentiations
- Living conditions
- Economic efficiency
- II - The pre-bath patterns of peasant consciousness, organization, and political behaviour
- Introduction : portraits of peasants by Ibn Khaldun, Balzac, Trotsky, Father Ayrout, and J. C. Scott, and their relevance
- The first peasant organizations or the corporations of peasant-gardeners from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
- Sufism among the peasants : a source of political quietism?
- The proneness in Ottoman and Mandate times of the peasant mountaineers to Rebellion and of the Peasants of the Open Plains to Indirect Methods of Defense
- The communists and the peasants
- The Arab socialists, or the first agrarian party in Syria's history
- III - The rural and peasant aspects of ba'hism
- The old Ba'th and the political rearing of a rural intelligentsia
- The "Transitional" Ba'th or the Ba'th of the 1960s, the rise of the lesser rural or village notability, and the ruralization of the army, the party, and, to some degree, the state bureaucracy
- The post-1970 Asad-molded, career-oriented Ba'th
- IV - Hafiz Al-Asad, or Syria's first ruler of peasant extraction
- Asad's background, early education, party apprenticeship, and first political battle
- Asad's military career and military qualifications, or the inferences as to his generalship deducible from his performance in the 1967 and 1973 wars and during Israel's invasion of Lebanon
- The varied aspects of power in Asad's state
- A few preliminary general observations on "democratic" rhetoric and the realities of life
- Focusing for a while on the more subtle forms of power
- The organization of power at the second tier of Asad's polity and its partaking, among other features, of a basic trait of peasant life
- A glance at the third level of power or at the composition of the upper elite of the Ba'th party (1970-1997)
- Shifting the focus to the fourth level of power, or an Analysis, by Way of Illustration, of the Role of the Peasants' General Union, the Party's principal ancillary mass organization
- A closer view of the summit of power, or Asad's Personality as a Factor in the Maintenance of His Rule and the Thwarting of His opponents
- Of the manner in which Asad dealt with the Muslim Brethren and their militants, and the light it throws on the methods by which he holds Sway
- Going the limit
- Frustrating the Muslim Brethren in exile
- More firmly in the saddle than ever
- Asad's main concepts at the level of regional politics : ends or instruments ?
- An in-depth study of Asad's relations with Fath and the P.L.O. from 1966 to 1997 and the light it sheds on his aims and techniques
- Epilogue.