From Obscurity To Rule: the Syrian Army and the Ba'Th Party
From Obscurity To Rule: the Syrian Army and the Ba'Th Party
From Obscurity To Rule: the Syrian Army and the Ba'Th Party
Key takeaways
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Bibliography: Perlmutter, A., 1969. From Obscurity To Rule: the Syrian Army and the Ba’Th Party. Western Political Quarterly 19.
Authors:: Amos Perlmutter
Collections:: Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Abstract
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Reading notes
- The Syrian military prefer a praetorian-patrimonial rule to parliamentary domination. Thus a nonconsolidated, newly mobilized rural elite rules by virtue of force, not by the expectation of political-parliamentary consensus. Legitimacy is sought in the doctrines of the permanent revolution, but the Syrian rulers do not have the commitment that this doctrine demands of its authors.
- On the inter-Arab plane, the Ba'th-Nasser antagonism is going beyond Ba'th disappointment in Nasser's dictatorship or Ba'th-Nasser deteriorating relations. Egyptian and Arab nationalism have not been reconciled intellectually or political
- For Syria, a reasonably long reign of constitutional life seems unlikely, if not impossible. The chances are that, whatever the outcome, army groups will become more militant and self-assertive, emulating their great Egyptian brother. These groups expect eventually independent and army-dominated rule, and they may establish their own political organization Shishakly and Nasser did.