Hezbollah

This book examines Hezbollah's transition from a domestic into a regional armed non-state actor (ANSA). Taking its point of departure in Hezbollah's historiography on the military and political levels in Lebanon, it focuses on the participation of Hezbollah's troops in Syria's sect-coded civil war.

Autorentext

Hadi Wahab is a Middle East Researcher with a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter. He has previously published two articles about sectarian identity and relations amongst the Druze in Lebanon and Syria and their response to religious terrorism and one article about Hezbollah's top-down instrumentalization of sectarian identity and its its role in Syria's sect-coded conflict.

Klappentext

This book examines Hezbollah's transition from a domestic into a regional armed non-state actor (ANSA). Taking its point of departure in Hezbollah's historiography on the military and political levels in Lebanon, it focuses on the participation of Hezbollah's troops in Syria's sect-coded civil war.

Inhalt

1. Introduction, 2. Background, Emergence, and Religious and Political Allegiances, 3. Lebanon: Hezbollah's Den, 4. The Geopolitical Contest and Hezbollah's Sect-Centricity, 5. The Transition: A Regional Armed Non-State Actor, 6. Hezbollah's Paroxysm: What Next?