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The Political Economy of the Syrian Crisis

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This essay investigates the subject of history or the social class that has precipitated the social disaster in Syria. The subject of history is the social force that moulds social relationships to ensure an outcome favouring its class interest. The essay follows the circuit of capital by which value veers away from the working class towards national and US-led capital. Politically, the case for collusion between the Syrian regime and US-capital is nebulous. On one hand, the regime supports radical resistance to US-imperialist hegemony. On the other, the regime, in key historical moments, constrained the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Leba-nese National Movement in 1976, encouraged sectarianism and partici-pated in the coalition of the willing in the war on Iraq.

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  • Ali Kadri, 2012. "The Political Economy of the Syrian Crisis," The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics 46, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance.
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    1. Philip Proudfoot, 2017. "The smell of blood," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(3-4), pages 483-502, July.

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