Coup in Damascus

Carl Rihan is an Associate and Visiting Fellow of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA, Hamburg). He acts as Research Associate to the Vice-Chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), as well as Consultant at the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan, a Lebanese public sector agency and United Nations partner specialized in Economics and Public Financial Management. In the span of twelve years, Carl has served as programme coordinator and lead researcher at the Institut, and contributed to the early design of Agenda 2030 in the Middle East and North Africa region. He is a registered private consultant operating in Lille and teaches Business Management and Social Sciences at the Ecole Jeannine Manuel in Marcq-en-Baroeul, Lille. He also lectures on international security, public policy, and Middle East history at SciencesPo Lille. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. from SciencesPo Paris. -- .

1 Central Bankers, Notables, and Peasants
2 The Political Disaster of 1948
3 The Jordanian Option
4 The Wrongly Accused
5 Diplomatic Landmine
6 The New Dawn
7 Officers and Bankers
8 Containing Greater Syria
9 The Birth of Rentierism
10 First Cracks in the Junta
11 Backlash
12 The Polarization of Rural Politics
13 Blurred Borders and Blurred Allegiances
14 A New Deal
15 The Collective Imaginary Denied
16 An Unusual Sedition
17 The Flood Gates are Open
18 Conclusion -- .