The Political Economy and Complex Interdependency of the War System in Syria
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2-2016
Abstract
Duration of civil wars has been an elusive area of study particularly because of the tedious task of disentangling the interplay of actors’ agencies, incentives' structures and constraints. This article tackles Syria’s civil war that has completed its fifth year with little hope for an end any time soon. I examine a plausible cause leading to its protraction. Namely the formation of a war system, which made the costs of war less than the expected risks of peace giving the local, regional and international actors that are shouldering the costs. The war system approach combines class analysis with system-structural analysis capturing nuances and dynamics of conflict. This article is based in part based on primary sources collected by author in the Summers of 2014 and 2015 in Lebanon.
Publication Title
Civil Wars
First Page Number
45
Last Page Number
68
DOI
10.1080/13698249.2016.1144495
Recommended Citation
Richani, Nazih, "The Political Economy and Complex Interdependency of the War System in Syria" (2016). Kean Publications. 1763.
https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/keanpublications/1763