Popular Mobilization in Syria: Opportunity and Threat, and the Social Networks of the Early Risers

Mediterranean Politics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-159

  Leenders, Reinoud ^a   Heydemann, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; MOBILITY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 84864687959     PISSN: 13629395     EISSN: 17439418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2012.694041     Document Type: Article

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