The failure of the ‘Syrian Spring’ is unfolding before the eyes of the world. An analysis of possible outcomes and final resolutions is currently impossible, but one can assume that the pre–2011 Syria will not exist in the future: too many deaths, too much indiscriminate killing, too many inter-religious struggles. The failure of this country – which has played a significant role in contemporary Arab history from the end of WWI to the decolonization process and through the Cold War and into its aftermath – is symptomatically related to an identity fiasco that is largely attributable to the political leadership of the al-Assad family, but also, more generally, to a previous inability to shape a national distinctiveness able to accommodate the country’s varied religious and political peculiarities.
Demichelis, M. (2017). Syria’s Lebanonization: a Historical excursus within the “non – existence” of Syrian National Identity. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press.
Syria’s Lebanonization: a Historical excursus within the “non – existence” of Syrian National Identity
Marco Demichelis
2017
Abstract
The failure of the ‘Syrian Spring’ is unfolding before the eyes of the world. An analysis of possible outcomes and final resolutions is currently impossible, but one can assume that the pre–2011 Syria will not exist in the future: too many deaths, too much indiscriminate killing, too many inter-religious struggles. The failure of this country – which has played a significant role in contemporary Arab history from the end of WWI to the decolonization process and through the Cold War and into its aftermath – is symptomatically related to an identity fiasco that is largely attributable to the political leadership of the al-Assad family, but also, more generally, to a previous inability to shape a national distinctiveness able to accommodate the country’s varied religious and political peculiarities.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
