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Asad in Search of Legitimacy
Mordechai Kedar
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Description for Asad in Search of Legitimacy
Hardcover. This text offers and analysis of the political domestic message of the Syrian Press. Num Pages: 302 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JJP; DSBH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 592.
The Syrian regime, ruled by the Ba'th socialist party and headed by presidents from the Alawi minority, faces problems of legitimacy vis-a-vis its people, which it tackles through powerful security organizations and the state media. The government media machine exists to express the regime's viewpoint in both local and external spheres, and to promote acceptance of the legitimacy of Asad's presidency and government. The media also attempts to mobilize the masses to act in the service of the state by disseminating information which reflects Asad's position on current issues. The organs of the regime -- army, party, security services, national ... Read more
The Syrian regime, ruled by the Ba'th socialist party and headed by presidents from the Alawi minority, faces problems of legitimacy vis-a-vis its people, which it tackles through powerful security organizations and the state media. The government media machine exists to express the regime's viewpoint in both local and external spheres, and to promote acceptance of the legitimacy of Asad's presidency and government. The media also attempts to mobilize the masses to act in the service of the state by disseminating information which reflects Asad's position on current issues. The organs of the regime -- army, party, security services, national ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902210742
SKU
V9781902210742
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About Mordechai Kedar
Mordechai Kedar is Lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. For 25 years he analyzed documents in Arabic in his duties as Senior Intelligence office in the IDF. He is the author of many articles on political issues in the politics of Arab states.
Reviews for Asad in Search of Legitimacy
"...an outstandingly rich study of the way the Syrian Ba'th regime under Hafiz al-Asad used the Syrian media and other official information services in his search for legitimacy...This comprehensive study, based on a wealth of primary Arabic sources and written by an authority in Arabic language studies, should become a model for the analytic and systematic treatment of official rhetoric ... Read more