Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria Wedeen Lisa
Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria Wedeen Lisa If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments,…
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Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria Wedeen Lisa
If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. Developing a fresh, insightful, and theoretically imaginative approach to both authoritarianism and conflict, Wedeen asks, What led a sizable part of the citizenry to stick by the regime through one atrocity after another? In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordinary rush of events--the revolutionary exhilaration of the initial days of unrest and then the devastating violence that shattered hopes of any quick undoing of dictatorship.
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