См., например: Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders (eds). Middle East Authoritarianisms: Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran (Stanford University Press, 2013); Lisa Wedeen. “Acting ‘as if’: Symbolic Politics and Social Control in Syria”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 40, no. 3 (1998): 503–23.
