Hello again! I’ve been doing some reading on the countries of West Asia, slowly going over each of their individual histories as well as just trying to understand this region in general since I haven’t really gone into it too much before. I’ve finished up on Iraq and Afghanistan (Blowback pod is great for that) As well as some focus on Iran after recent events. However I’m struggiling to find good resources on Syria that isn’t just liberal throat gurgiling. Do you guys have any book reccomendations or pointers? I enjoyed reading the replies on my last post on Ukraine and the replies were all so well done I thought I’d ask again but for Syria. Thanks :)
The socioeconomic policies of Assad jr. represented by the austerity measures and the espousal of neoliberalism is what led, to a great extent, to the uprising in the first place. I don’t have book recommendations, but I did find two interesting articles from a Marxist/leftist POV that discuss this exact matter, and which include a rich bibliography and citations that you can look through.
https://aljumhuriya.net/en/2017/09/21/socio-economic-roots-syrias-uprising/
https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/39149/syria-the-social-origins-of-the-uprising
Thank you that’s very useful!