The History and Political Landscape of Syria

Syria was once a major supporter of chemical weapons and lost confidence in the world stage. From the Ottoman ash, Syria has experienced constant disarray, revolution and anti - revolution against foreign domination; political enemies of fundamentalists, soldiers and civilian rulers. In order to understand this constant change, people need to understand Syria's history and political structure. To store these horrible weapons and to drive the country to release them to those who are not sufficient for the equipment to endure their influence.

Since the beginning of 2011, the history of Syria is in a traumatic phase, the confrontation between political parties and the opposition parties has rapidly become an invasion of terrorist organizations, leading to Syria's destruction and cultural heritage looting (Azm, 2015). ) UNESCO Secretary-General announced that Syria's cultural heritage has been plundered "on an industrial scale". In 2015, the Syrian Archeology Conservation Society stated that the Islamic State destroyed, looted, plundered more than 900 monuments and ruins including Palmyra and Aleppo's World Heritage (Sabi, 2015).

In the 20th century, political leaders used cultural heritage to form a modern national Syrian state. Archeology has become a way to unite the people of the secular state by reviewing the identity of the old Islamic state as a reference. In the book published in 2004, "Resurrecting Phoenicians: Seeking Identity in Lebanon", scholar Arthur Kaufman highlighted the different national sentiments of Syria and Lebanon after the Ottoman Empire. In addition to nationalism drawn from Islamism and the general Arab identity, Mr. Kaufman said, "Non-Arab Syrianism is highly dependent on French scholars' work written according to geography and ethnic unity There is. Along with the rapid development of global tourism in the 20th century, places like Palmira provided economic opportunities for the local community. They also contribute to the image of the dictatorial Syrian government's soft power.

Democratic politics was the center of the formation of Syrian nation during the post colonial period. After Syria became independent from France in 1946, Syrian political parties created a diverse landscape representing various social and political interests. Many of these parties tried to mobilize and mobilize the various interests that collide with the state increasingly dominated by the narrow remaining dominant elite of the Ottoman era before the First World War. Resistance to the dominant elite comes from various fields of Syrian society: military, peasants, urban merchants, and workers. These groups dominated increasingly fragmented state institutions, and the resulting instability caused the environment for the rise of the Baath party, a pan-Arab political movement dedicated to the unification of the Arabs in the 1940s I made. Because instability threatens the country, the Syrian government asked Egypt to form a labor union.