{"id":4116,"date":"2009-10-25T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2009-10-25T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T15:06:02","slug":"the-syrian-exception-between-modernization-and-resistance-by-caroline-donati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/the-syrian-exception-between-modernization-and-resistance-by-caroline-donati\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Syrian Exception: Between Modernization and Resistance&#8221; by Caroline Donati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livre.fnac.com\/a2442621\/Caroline-Donati-L-exception-syrienne-entre-modernisation-et-resistance?PID=1\"><em>The Syrian Exception: Between Modernization and Resistance<\/em><\/a> by  Caroline Donati is an important new addition to the short number of good books on Syria. It is in French.<br \/>\n&#8220;L&#8217;exception syrienne, entre modernisation et r\u00e9sistance&#8221;, (\u00e9ditions La D\u00e9couverte)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51djyVkg73L._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/>The following radio interview with the author and Samir A\u00efta, a leading Syrian intellectual who consults regularly on the Syrian Economy is interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv-radio.com\/ondemand\/france_culture\/PLACE_PEUPLES\/PLACE_PEUPLES20091004.ram\"> Raido in French: Here is a radio show about the book with Samir Aita<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Place des peuples<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samir Aita <\/strong>explains that the rural exodus taking place in the Jazirah, has its roots in 2000 when the government liberalized the agricultural sector and landownership. No social security safety net had ben established to catch those pushed off the land. This made the process very &#8220;brutal&#8221; according to Aita, and has led to the exodus of almost a million inhabitants from the Jazirah who have moved to the poor suburbs of Syria&#8217;s great cities. Samir disputes Donati&#8217;s arguement that the result of economic liberalization has been the reemergence of identity politics. He argues that &#8220;What we are seeing [in Syria] is the weakness of the state and the progressive erosion of its ability to regulate the distribution of economic benefits or to protect the people. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Arabic<\/strong>:<a href=\"www.radioorient.com\/AL-Maqha-Al-Sharqi-Emission-du-4-octobre-2009_a2100.html\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioorient.com\/AL-Maqha-Al-Sharqi-Emission-du-4-octobre-2009_a2100.html\">Hoda Barakat of Radio Orient talks about the book<\/a>. Translation of the book&#8217;s cover in Arabic<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019ouvrage de Caroline Donati analyse en profondeur les mutations du \u00absyst\u00e8me Assad\u00bb depuis les ann\u00e9es 70 mais trace aussi un portrait in\u00e9dit d\u2019un pays confront\u00e9 \u00e0 des d\u00e9fis multiples : r\u00e9veil religieux des sunnites, tentation autonomiste des Kurdes, marginalisation du parti Baas, cons\u00e9quences sociales et politiques de l\u2019ouverture \u00e9conomique et, enfin, reconfiguration de son r\u00f4le r\u00e9gional apr\u00e8s l\u2019invasion de l\u2019Irak et son d\u00e9part contraint du Liban.<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e8s de dix ans apr\u00e8s son arriv\u00e9e au pouvoir en 2000, Bachar al-Assad demeure confront\u00e9 \u00e0 des d\u00e9fis consid\u00e9rables. L\u2019\u00ab h\u00e9ritier \u00bb d\u2019Hafez al-Assad a entrepris de rendre \u00e0 la Syrie son statut d\u2019acteur majeur du Moyen-Orient. Or, en d\u00e9pit de son alliance avec T\u00e9h\u00e9ran, d\u2019une influence maintenue au Liban &#8211; apr\u00e8s le retrait de son arm\u00e9e en 2005\u00a0&#8211; et de relais avanc\u00e9s dans le nouvel Irak, la pertinence strat\u00e9gique syrienne est \u00e9rod\u00e9e. Par ailleurs, la recomposition autoritaire a accentu\u00e9 le repli du pouvoir sur lui-m\u00eame ; elle a marginalis\u00e9 davantage le Ba\u2019th et creus\u00e9 les \u00e9carts entre une \u00e9lite enrichie et \u00ab mondialis\u00e9e \u00bb et une majorit\u00e9 appauvrie.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"texte_description_fiche_produit\" style=\"display: block; text-align: left;\">Au terme d\u2019un vaste travail d\u2019enqu\u00eate men\u00e9 dans tout le pays, Caroline Donati analyse dans ce livre les \u00e9volutions du \u00ab syst\u00e8me Assad \u00bb depuis sa mise en place en 1970, ainsi que celles de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9. Elle montre pourquoi l\u2019ouverture \u00e9conomique acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e sous Bachar a fragilis\u00e9 les \u00e9quilibres internes. Enfin, elle d\u00e9crit comment la d\u00e9tresse sociale, le tarissement des ressources et l\u2019absence de proc\u00e9dures d\u00e9mocratiques font le lit de mobilisations identitaires aviv\u00e9es par le contexte r\u00e9gional : du r\u00e9veil sunnite au revivalisme chr\u00e9tien, jusqu\u2019aux vell\u00e9it\u00e9s autonomistes kurdes et \u00e0 l\u2019affirmation de l\u2019ordre tribal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>L\u2019aspiration au changement des intellectuels, de la mouvance islamiste et de la jeunesse \u00e9tant syst\u00e9matiquement sanctionn\u00e9e par un pouvoir aux aguets, les perspectives apparaissent bien incertaines pour une population dont la moiti\u00e9 a moins de vingt ans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ISBN: 9782707147998<\/p>\n<p>360 pp. 24 euros<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Donati<br \/>\nJournaliste &#8211; consultante<br \/>\n13, rue Arthur Groussier 75010 Paris<br \/>\n33 6 22 19 76 30<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrian Exception: Between Modernization and Resistance by Caroline Donati is an important new addition to the short number of good books on Syria. 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