Syria and the Future of the State Order in the Levant

Speaker: Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE As the Syrian conflict nears its fourth anniversary, it poses a growing threat to the stability of the state order in the Levant and Arab East. In this lecture, Steven Heydemann argues that the widespread violence now gripping the Levant and Arab East has a logic and structure that can shed light on its underlying dynamics, its drivers, and its possible effects. Recorded on 11 February 2015.