From Obscurity To Rule: the Syrian Army and the Ba'Th Party

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Bibliography: Perlmutter, A., 1969. From Obscurity To Rule: the Syrian Army and the Ba’Th Party. Western Political Quarterly 19.

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Abstract

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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.