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From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 3-17, Winter 2025.
Abstract A new approach to rebuilding collapsed states is being trialed in the Arab world, most conspicuously by the Trump administration but with broad international support. This replaces the previous model—favoring democratic building blocks like inclusion, compromise, reconciliation, accountability, and citizenship—which is now seen as too costly ...
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
wiley   +1 more source

The authoritarian castling of the Syrian regime: from popular uprising to civil war

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2015
Instead of hastening political change, the Syrian uprising has led to greater authoritarianism. At first, president Bashar al-Assad adopted various cosmetic reforms (a party law and constitutional referendum), which were designed more as a survival ...
Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño
doaj  

The Arab Spring was Critically Acclaimed: Militant Arab Cinema Conjunctures, and the Emergence of the Character‐Driven Resilience Documentary

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2393-2416, November 2025.
Abstract In the decade since the so‐called Arab Spring first drove debates around the relationship between images and militancy, hundreds of films have documented the uprisings and their aftermath. Yet little scholarship has considered the political consequences of films made in relation to the Arab Spring or situated new works in relation to earlier ...
Mary Jirmanus Saba
wiley   +1 more source

The Critical Thinking About Conspiracies (CTAC) Test: Development and Validation

open access: yesApplied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 39, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT How should we measure people's vulnerability to unreasonable conspiracy theories? This is a key question for those designing interventions that aim to limit the spread of inaccurate beliefs. We argue that existing approaches are either too specific (measuring belief in a known conspiracy theory) or too general (measuring broad beliefs about ...
Cian O'Mahony   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

After Assad: How Russia Is Losing the Middle East

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 109-122, Autumn (Fall) 2025.
Abstract Russia's military and diplomatic victories in Syria once appeared to cement its status as a dominant power in the Middle East. However, the swift collapse of the Assad regime exposed cracks in Moscow's regional and global credibility. Our analysis reveals that Syrian President Bashar al‐Assad's downfall delivers a triple blow—strategic ...
Namig Abbasov, Emil A. Souleimanov
wiley   +1 more source

UPAYA AMERIKA SERIKAT MENJATUHKAN PEMERINTAHAN BASHAR AL ASSAD DI SURIAH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Konflik internal di Suriah yang merupakan konflik antara pemerintahan Bashar Al Assad dengan pihak oposisi yang tidak percaya terhadap rezim Assad dimanfaatkan oleh beberapa aktor dari luar.
IZZUL, ALBAB
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La Syrie post-Assad : un pays transformé par la guerre et la destruction

open access: yesEchoGéo
This article examines Syria in the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s regime falling in December 2024, contextualising it within the long-term dynamics of fourteen years of war.
Leïla Vignal
doaj   +1 more source

Tracing the Conflict Between Türkiye and Syria Through the Turkish Mainstream Media's Coverage of the Syrian President Bashar al‐Assad

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 95, Issue 3, Page 562-587, August 2025.
The Syrian civil war began in March 2011 and spread throughout the country in April 2011. Therefore, in this study news articles and columns published in 2011 were selected and analyzed through purposive sampling. This study uses content analysis to examine the coverage of Syrian President Bashar al‐Assad in mainstream print newspapers with different ...
Bahar Kayıhan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alasan-alasan Penolakan Pengunduran Diri Pemerintah Bashar Al-Assad terhadap Tuntutan Oposisi dalam Gerakan Reformasi Suriah

open access: yes, 2018
Syria is among the Arab states affected by the storm of revolution. Syrian political conflicts are not purely due to internal problems in the country, but Syrian political conflict is a scenario that has been designed for the United States and its Allies
Astutui, Fitri, Harmiyati, Harmiyati
core   +1 more source

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