The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 82 of Siyasat Arabiya, a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of political science and international relations. The issue opens with a study by Azmi Bishara entitled “From Amoral Politics to Immoral Politics: The Influence of the Trump Administration.”
The issue also features a special issue, “Transition, Identity, and State-Building in Post-Assad Syria,” edited by Ahmed Qasem Hussein, who also contributes the introduction. The special issue includes the following articles: “The Constitutional Legacy in Syria (1973–2024): Missed Opportunities all along the way to the Assad Regime’s Collapse,” by Ibrahim Draji; “State-building and Social Contract in Post-Assad Syria: A Constitutive Approach,” by Emad Alali; “‘Fragmented Identities’: An Analysis of Transformations in Syrian National Identity Based on the Findings of the 2025 Arab Opinion Index in Syria,” by Ahmed Qasem Hussein and Nabil Hussein; “The Sociology of the Assad Regime’s Collapse: The Alawite Community and the Erosion of the Social Contract (2011–2024),” by Haian Dukhan and Rahaf Aldoughli; and “Reshaping Power in Post-Assad Syria: A Neopatrimonial Approach,” by Azzam Al Kassir.
The Book Reviews section features Samir Alabdullah’s review of Mohammed Jamal Barout’s The Last Ten Years in Syria: The Dialectic of Stagnation and Reform. The Translation section presents Joanne P. Sharp’s “Geopolitics at the Margins? Reconsidering Genealogies of Critical Geopolitics,” translated by Saja Torman. The Documentation section covers key events in Palestine from 1 July to 31 August 2026. The issue concludes with the Featured Books section, presenting a selection of recent publications.
