Want to learn more about Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa & the tightrope he walks? Read a sample from ‘Transformed by the People’ by Patrick Haenni & @jeromed.bsky.social 👇
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‘Fascinating and informative.’ @wsj.com
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Jerome I’m already lending this to my new thesis student (Jordanian military) I met today! What a great topic for study, and this will be a great resource for him.
Excited to share “Commanders of the Mujahideen: Introducing the Jihadist Leaders Dataset” at JPR! Analyzing Arabic, French, German, Turkish, and Urdu sources, we gathered information on the backgrounds and experiences of 237 leaders across multiple regions academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
NOUVEAU RAPPORT | Le Jnim et le dilemme de l’expansion au-delà du Sahel
Le principal groupe jihadiste au Sahel central s’est engagé dans une expansion qui a mis en alerte l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Mais la conquête territoriale est un dilemme pour le Jnim.
www.crisisgroup.org/fr/rpt/afric...
In Syria, following impressive international successes and the recent reunification of the country, time has come for a more inclusive political transition to secure and consolidate the gains achieved @crisisgroup.org @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
In Syria, following impressive international successes and the recent reunification of the country, time has come for a more inclusive political transition to secure and consolidate the gains achieved @crisisgroup.org @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
Excited to dig into one of the most astounding stories of 2024 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.hurstpublishers.com/book/transfo...
Thanks Craig, tell me what you think!
Our discipline, Conflict Studies, is in trouble. Wolfram and I try to explain the reasons. Comments welcome!
In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience.
What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?
@akmckeever.bsky.social on through-line from HTS governance experiment in Idlib to Syria’s post-Assad regime, based on Patrick Haenni and @jeromed.bsky.social’s “Transformed by the People”: akmckeever.substack.com/p/what-the-h...
‘Fascinating and informative, drawing on the authors’ extensive fieldwork in the region.’
Transformed by the People by Patrick Haenni & @jeromed.bsky.social reviewed in @wsj.com 👏
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The book is finally out in the US too www.amazon.com/Transformed-...
The book is finally out in the US too www.amazon.com/Transformed-...
Vous vous demandez “Où en est la Syrie" ?
Rejoignez-nous le 📅 3 novembre, 12h30, à l’Institut et en ligne pour un échange sur les dynamiques actuelles, HTS, révolutions et transitions.
Avec @jeromed.bsky.social and Patrick Haenni, co-auteurs de Transformed by the People.
👉 shorturl.at/H0sji
Find CCDP community associates in the latest research bulletin:
❇️ @jeromed.bsky.social
❇️ @jenniferthornquest.bsky.social
❇️ @elenabutti.bsky.social
❇️ @sarahellmuller.bsky.social
❇️ Reza Mehraeen
❇️ Khalid Tinasti
❇️ Robert Watkins
The book draws on dozens of interviews with al-Sharaa, his associates who later became ministers, dissidents and opponents, as well as diplomats.
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In addition to the typos, also forgot the main argument!
The book’s main argument is that HTS was "transformed by the people". The constraints of Idlib’s social context and of the international environment before the 2024 takeover of Idlib forced the group to change, in very lasting ways
The book is available in Europe, on Kindle in Europe and the US, and in the US in early November
We conclude with an epilogue, written in spring 2025, warning of the rise of a new populist trend in Syria, one driven from the bottom up, seeking supremacy and revenge. This emerging dynamic signals a shift that could reshape the post-HTS landscape in unpredictable and destabilising ways
We also examine the tensions in Idlib before 2024: the rise of a populist current pushing for stricter implementation of Islamic law, and how HTS responded. Even more telling was HTS’s handling of last year’s protest movement, which demanded political opening, reforms, and an end to abuses.
We also explore HTS’s Salafism in depth showing how, without abandoning Salafism, the group stripped it of most of its political implications. This enables us to analyse HTS’s religious governance, and its approach to religious minorities, in essentially non-religious, even “secularised,” terms.
The book details how HTS imposed itself over rival factions - especially mainstream Islamists like Ahrar al-Sham - waged war on al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, and brought foreign fighters under its control.
In the conclusion, we also compare HTS’s trajectory to European far-right movements that sought to “de-demonise” themselves, showing how strategies of rebranding and normalisation extend well beyond Syria (the comparison might not please everyone!)
This change proved lasting and political, with no possible return though, paradoxically, it was largely unintended at the outset.
Rather than comparing HTS to other Islamist movements, we place it in the context of a revolutionary situation par excellence: the last phase of the French Revolution.
The book draws on dozens of interviews with al-Sharaa, his associates who later became ministers, dissidents and opponents, as well as diplomats.
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The arrival of Ahmad al-Sharaa in NYC for the UNGA is a timely moment to highlight our new book, published a few weeks ago in Europe and in a month ago in the US (already on Kindle). What lessons can we draw from the past? A threat
Our book is finally out in the UK and Europe! (also in a week or so on the kindle in the US, and early November for the hardback in North America). You have read parts of the first chapters on google book: www.google.fr/books/editio...
A stack of copies of Transformed by the People with the Somerset House courtyard visible in the background. The cover features an image of Ahmad al-Sharaa waving to crowds. There is white and yellow text that reads 'Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham's Road to Power in Syria. Patrick Haenni & Jerome Drevon.'
Congratulations Patrick Haenni and @jeromed.bsky.social, Transformed by the People is out now👏
‘Essential reading.’ @irishtimes.com
‘Haenni and Drevon have done the impossible… a gem, a superb, edifying and eye-opening account.’—Robert Malley
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