If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal
democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with …

Scholarship on Syria has traditionally been limited by researchers' difficulty in accessing the
reflections of ordinary citizens due to their reluctance to speak about politics. The 2011 revolt …

Cascade models explain the roles of the intrepid few who initiate protest and the masses
who join when the expected utility of dissent flips from negative to positive. Yet questions …

This article takes stock of my attempt to scrutinize the onset of the Syrian uprising with the
help of some key analytical concepts derived from social movement theory, including …

State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns explores the policies of the
successive Syrian governments towards the Arab tribes and their reactions to these policies …

This article is interested in Syrian and Syrian refugees' ties of belonging to their country in
times of war and displacement. By looking at individuals, the paper follows a micro‐level …

Based on open-ended interviews with Syrian refugees in Jordan and Turkey, this analysis of
Syria'sf irst mass street demonstration, occurring on March 18, 2011, in the city of Daraa …

Scholarship on the Syrian conflict has too often reduced the analysis of political behaviour to
the causal variable of sectarianism and therefore overlooked the role of other identities …

This article interrogates whether, and if so how, international mediation might shape the
identities of the conflict parties. I examine stages I and II of the Geneva Peace Process, the …

In cross-national studies, ethnic exclusion is robustly associated with the onset of violent
challenge to incumbent regimes. But significant variation remains at the subnational level …