For proponents of the view that anthropogenic climate change will become a 'threat
multiplier'for instability in the decades ahead, the Syrian civil war has become a recurring …

An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and
other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war" One of the best informed and …

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 …

Syria recently suffered a once in 500-year meteorological drought followed by one of the
worst conflicts of the twenty-first century. We exploit subnational variation in drought impact …

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 …

A few years into the most recent wave of popular uprisings—the Arab Spring—studying
regime trajectories in countries such as Syria, Egypt, and Yemen still seems like shooting at …

In response to the uprisings of 2011, Syria's Assad regime brought the full weight of its
repressive apparatus down on the heads of peaceful protesters, provoking reactions that led …

Why are some people willing to initiate protest against authoritarian regimes? How does
repression affect their willingness to act? Drawing on data from the Arab Spring protests in …

Lebanon's century-old sectarian framework maintains a system of governance through
networks of clientelism and a commitment to fostering co-existence through the patronage of …

This paper seeks to explain and test the formation process of social movements by
addressing two overarching interrelated factors: opportunity structures and mobilizing …