THEORIZING SECTARIANISM IN SYRIA: Toward a framework of analysis

TY - CHAP

T1 - THEORIZING SECTARIANISM IN SYRIA

T2 - Toward a framework of analysis

AU - Hinnebusch, Raymond

AU - Valbjørn, Morten

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Raymond Hinnebusch and Morten Valbjørn; individual chapters, the contributors.

PY - 2025/1/1

Y1 - 2025/1/1

N2 - This chapter examines key approaches and debates about conceptualizing, theorizing, and understanding the causes and consequences of sectarianism in Syria. We seek to understand what factors caused sectarianization but also how it, in turn, affected or impacted state formation and governance in Syria and Syria’s role in the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Based on this discussion, the chapter ends with a framework of analysis that can be deployed to systematically chart sectarianism across time and place in Syria. The empirical chapters in this book will employ the framework to organize comparative study of variations, and, in parallel, contribute to testing the framework’s explanatory power. The concluding chapter systematically summarizes the comparisons and draws theoretical conclusions.

AB - This chapter examines key approaches and debates about conceptualizing, theorizing, and understanding the causes and consequences of sectarianism in Syria. We seek to understand what factors caused sectarianization but also how it, in turn, affected or impacted state formation and governance in Syria and Syria’s role in the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Based on this discussion, the chapter ends with a framework of analysis that can be deployed to systematically chart sectarianism across time and place in Syria. The empirical chapters in this book will employ the framework to organize comparative study of variations, and, in parallel, contribute to testing the framework’s explanatory power. The concluding chapter systematically summarizes the comparisons and draws theoretical conclusions.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105002999288&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9781003557722-2

DO - 10.4324/9781003557722-2

M3 - Book chapter

AN - SCOPUS:105002999288

SN - 9781032903798

SP - 3

EP - 38

BT - Sectarianism and Civil War in Syria

A2 - Hinnebusch, Raymond

PB - Taylor and Francis Group

ER -