397 Alejandra Álvarez Suárez The collapse of order... JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee Alejandra Álvarez Suárez Has a degree in Arabic Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Barcelona. During the years 2006- 2009 she taught at the University of Aleppo (Syria) and currently works as a teacher in the Master on Arab and Islamic world at the University of Barcelona. E-mail: Alejandraas3@hotmail.com THE COLLAPSE OF ORDER. A MATTER OF EXASPERATION OR INSTRUMENTALIZATION? A HISTORIC RETROSPECTIVE ABOUT CONFESSIONAL DRIFT IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT Abstract The Civil war in Syria with its different protagonists, scenarios and all elements that make it up can´t be appropriately understood without a retrospective view on recent History. This article deals with a historic perspective about the perceptible confessional matter in Syria which is differentiated in three main periods: the end of the Ottoman Control, the Mandate and the Contemporary State- and has the goal or determining if religion plays an essential role within the conflict or if on the contrary religious beliefs have been used for all different sides as a political or social upheaval instrument. Moreover I will display elements that are considered characteristic in the context of the country´s current situation which have been present in Syria process for more than one and a half century. KeyWords Syria, civil war, conflicto, State confessionality, Islamism.
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