TY  - BOOK
AU  - BERTI Benedetta
AU  - SOSNOWSKI Marika
TI  - Neither peace nor democracy: the role of siege and population control in the Syrian regime's coercive counterinsurgency campaign
PY  - 2022///
KW  - SYRIA
KW  - CIVIL WAR
KW  - COUNTERINSURGENCY
KW  - SIEGE
KW  - DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
N2  - This article examines the role of siege warfare and population control in the coercive counterinsurgency strategy used by the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad to effectively crush the revolution that began in 2011. We extend the coercive counterinsurgency framework offered by Monica Duffy Toft and Yuri Zhukov to analyze the Syrian regime's use of the twin tactical pillars of siege warfare and population control. We focus on how these two types of denial - military and political - proved essential to the regime's military victory
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09592318.2022.2056392
ER  -