The Baatho-Assadist System, a System of Political Instrumentalisation ()
ABSTRACT
Various studies on political instrumentalisation
show its application in several areas as an element of political recovery of
all forms of protest in favour of power. In this context, this study analyses
the different facades of the political instrumentalisation of the Syrian
political system. The instrumentalisation of civil society, the
instrumentalisation of education, the instrumentalisation of Syrian constitution, the
instrumentalisation of secularism and religions, the instrumentalisation of
opposition, the instrumentalisation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and
Arab nationalism, the instrumentalisation of media and the instrumentalisation of
culture and of space and cities have been analysed. Syria is considered to be a
country subject to a single party that monopolises political activity within
the state the Baath Party, the only political party standing for election, and
the only one governing the country continuously since 1963; all the elements analysed in this study show that
instrumentalisation is a fundamental method of the Syrian political system. It
is used systematically and methodically.
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Mobaied, S. (2020) The Baatho-Assadist System, a System of Political Instrumentalisation.
Open Journal of Political Science,
10, 124-133. doi:
10.4236/ojps.2020.101009.