Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction: Origins of the Syrian Uprising: From structure to agency -- Why the Asad regime was so vulnerable to the Uprising -- Explaining ant…
Most observers did not expect the Arab spring to spread to Syria, for a number of seemingly good reasons. Yet, with amazing rapidity, massive and unprecedented anti-regime mobilization took place, which put the regime very much on the defensive; what began as the Syrian Uprising…