The Origins of the Syrian Insurrection

Reviewed : La Syrie de Bashar al-Asad. Anatomie d’un régime autoritaire, [Bashar Al-Asad’s Syria: Anatomy of an Authoritarian Regime], by Souhaïl Belhadj, Belin, 2013The Syrian civil war has entered its fourth year and continues to take a very heavy toll on the Syrian people. In his book on Bashar Al-Asad's authoritarian regime, Souhaïl Belhadj shows how this conflict is rooted not in ethnic and religious identity, but in a profound social crisis