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dc.contributor.authorRamírez, Naomí
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-12T13:57:45Z
dc.date.available2015-08-12T13:57:45Z
dc.date.issued2014-12-01
dc.identifier.citationRamírez, N. (2014). The strategy & goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Syrian Revolution. Syria Studies, 6(3), pp. 37-61.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2056-3175en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/syria/article/view/1042en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7198
dc.descriptionIssue title: Preludes to the Islamic State: contextualizing the rise of extremism in the Syrian Uprisingen_US
dc.description.abstractSince the Hama events of 1982 that led to the Muslim Brotherhood’s forced exile from Syria, the group’s aim has been the return to Syria. To achieve their goals, they have made use of different negotiation channels with the Assad regime during the past three decades. However, at one point, those channels were cut, and, being ostracized not only by the Syrian authorities, but also by many in the political opposition to the regime, the Brotherhood has crossed the threshold of relative and discontinuous passivity to full-blown oppositional activity. This paper examines the different strategies they have followed, such as political activity, provision of humanitarian aid, the exertion of influence on armed groups combating the regime, and the benefitting from the ideological similarities they bear with the newly elected regimes as well as the Turkish ruling party. Building on the information we examine, it is our hypothesis that the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood seemed to be the best-organized and coherent oppositional group might not necessarily lead them to power, especially when more radical groups with a jihadist strategy have taken the lead of the Islamist field and the situation remains extremely complex.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for Syrian Studies, School of International Relations, University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSyria Studiesen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectContemporary Syriaen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectPolitical economyen_US
dc.subjectInternational relationsen_US
dc.subjectMiddle Easten_US
dc.subjectMuslim Brotherhooden_US
dc.subjectISISen_US
dc.subjectIslamic Stateen_US
dc.subject.lccDS92.S9en_US
dc.subject.lcshSyriaen_US
dc.subject.lcshSyria--History--21st centuryen_US
dc.subject.lcshSyria--Politics and governmenten_US
dc.titleThe strategy & goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Syrian Revolutionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.statusPeer revieweden_US


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