عنوان

The salience of sectarianism: Making sect stick in Syria and Iraq

Number

TL48199

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

The salience of sectarianism: Making sect stick in Syria and Iraq

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Craig McCrea Browne

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Sassoon, Joseph

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Georgetown University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

93

Text of Note

Committee members: Morse, Yonatan

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-70942-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Arab Studies

Body granting the degree

Georgetown University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

How did a call for peaceful protests citing political and socio-economic grievances come to be overshadowed by brutal sectarian violence? This thesis uses process tracing to argue that the increased sectarianization of the Syrian conflict was due to the increased dominance of opposition organizations that were willing to compete with the regime's sectarian discourse and behavior. These organizations came from abroad and were supported from abroad. In other words, the regime set the scene and the dominant opposition groups wrote the story. While sectarian identities existed in Syria and Iraq before their respective conflicts, these social categories waxed and waned depending on context. Once conflict broke out, governing authorities were quick to use sectarian tactics. Though both governments faced resistance early on, it took some time for open conflict to break out. When this happened, well-organized, well-trained, and well-financed organizations flooded both countries and met the authorities head-on in struggles that became increasingly sectarian. As such, the increased sectarianization of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq is due to the organizations inclined towards sectarianism becoming militarily dominant amongst opposition to the already sectarianizing authorities.

Political science; Sociology

Subject Term

Social sciences;Ethnic conflict;Middle East;Politics;Process tracing;Sectarianism;Syria

Nakajima, Tatsuhiro

Sassoon, Joseph

Subdivision

Arab Studies

Georgetown University

Call Number

1679935929; 1587264

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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