The party of God. Hezbollah and the conflict in Syria
- “We shall bring victory”. Those were the words of sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, on 25 may 2013. Usually these words would be directed at Israel, the sworn enemy of the Lebanese movement. But this time Nasrallah was referring to the fighting in Syria. That night Hezbollah explicitly chose to side with the Syrian government in her fight against the rebels in the ongoing civil war. Why does the Shia Islamic and pro-Iranian Hezbollah stand so firmly alongside the secular Arab nationalist regime of Bashar al-Assad? What are the consequences for Lebanon and what does the interference of Hezbollah tell us about the balance of power in the small and deeply divided neighbouring country of Syria?
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| Author: | Gerben Stormbroek |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-359870 |
| URL: | http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2013/09/30/the-party-of-god-hezbollah-and-the-conflict-in-syria/ |
| Parent Title (German): | sicherheitspolitik-blog.de |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Report |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/09/30 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2013/09/30 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2014/12/09 |
| Tag: | hezbollah; hisbollah; syria |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 352876565 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |
