Jerome Drevon

Trouble Is Brewing in Syria Sustaining the country’s progress requires a more inclusive transition.

In Syria, following impressive international successes and the recent reunification of the country, time has come for a more inclusive political transition to secure and consolidate the gains achieved @crisisgroup.org @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

Trouble Is Brewing in Syria Sustaining the country’s progress requires a more inclusive transition.

In Syria, following impressive international successes and the recent reunification of the country, time has come for a more inclusive political transition to secure and consolidate the gains achieved @crisisgroup.org @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

Excited to dig into one of the most astounding stories of 2024 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.hurstpublishers.com/book/transfo...

Thanks Craig, tell me what you think!

Our discipline, Conflict Studies, is in trouble. Wolfram and I try to explain the reasons. Comments welcome!

The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience.

What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

What the HTS governance legacy in Idlib says about today A not-quite review of Haenni and Drevon's Transformed by the People

@akmckeever.bsky.social on through-line from HTS governance experiment in Idlib to Syria’s post-Assad regime, based on Patrick Haenni and @jeromed.bsky.social’s “Transformed by the People”: akmckeever.substack.com/p/what-the-h...

‘Transformed by the People’ Review: Revolution and Realignment The Islamist movement Hayat Tahrir al-Sham entered Damascus and toppled the Assad regime last year. What comes next for Syria?

‘Fascinating and informative, drawing on the authors’ extensive fieldwork in the region.’

Transformed by the People by Patrick Haenni & @jeromed.bsky.social reviewed in @wsj.com 👏
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West? Israel’s recent campaign in Gaza marks a turning point in modern warfare: the fusion of counter-insurgency and artificial intelligence. Will Western

AI is changing how wars are fought, but at what moral cost?

The book is finally out in the US too www.amazon.com/Transformed-...

The book is finally out in the US too www.amazon.com/Transformed-...

Vous vous demandez “Où en est la Syrie" ?

Rejoignez-nous le 📅 3 novembre, 12h30, à l’Institut et en ligne pour un échange sur les dynamiques actuelles, HTS, révolutions et transitions.

Avec @jeromed.bsky.social and Patrick Haenni, co-auteurs de Transformed by the People.

👉 shorturl.at/H0sji

Find CCDP community associates in the latest research bulletin:

❇️ @jeromed.bsky.social
❇️ @jenniferthornquest.bsky.social
❇️ @elenabutti.bsky.social
❇️ @sarahellmuller.bsky.social
❇️ Reza Mehraeen
❇️ Khalid Tinasti
❇️ Robert Watkins

Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's Road to Power in Syria Amazon.com: Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's Road to Power in Syria eBook : Haenni, Patrick, Drevon, Jerome: Books

The book draws on dozens of interviews with al-Sharaa, his associates who later became ministers, dissidents and opponents, as well as diplomats.
www.amazon.com/Transformed-... www.amazon.co.uk/Transformed-...

In addition to the typos, also forgot the main argument!
The book’s main argument is that HTS was "transformed by the people". The constraints of Idlib’s social context and of the international environment before the 2024 takeover of Idlib forced the group to change, in very lasting ways

The book is available in Europe, on Kindle in Europe and the US, and in the US in early November

We conclude with an epilogue, written in spring 2025, warning of the rise of a new populist trend in Syria, one driven from the bottom up, seeking supremacy and revenge. This emerging dynamic signals a shift that could reshape the post-HTS landscape in unpredictable and destabilising ways

We also examine the tensions in Idlib before 2024: the rise of a populist current pushing for stricter implementation of Islamic law, and how HTS responded. Even more telling was HTS’s handling of last year’s protest movement, which demanded political opening, reforms, and an end to abuses.

We also explore HTS’s Salafism in depth showing how, without abandoning Salafism, the group stripped it of most of its political implications. This enables us to analyse HTS’s religious governance, and its approach to religious minorities, in essentially non-religious, even “secularised,” terms.

The book details how HTS imposed itself over rival factions - especially mainstream Islamists like Ahrar al-Sham - waged war on al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, and brought foreign fighters under its control.

In the conclusion, we also compare HTS’s trajectory to European far-right movements that sought to “de-demonise” themselves, showing how strategies of rebranding and normalisation extend well beyond Syria (the comparison might not please everyone!)

This change proved lasting and political, with no possible return though, paradoxically, it was largely unintended at the outset.
Rather than comparing HTS to other Islamist movements, we place it in the context of a revolutionary situation par excellence: the last phase of the French Revolution.

Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's Road to Power in Syria Amazon.com: Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's Road to Power in Syria eBook : Haenni, Patrick, Drevon, Jerome: Books

The book draws on dozens of interviews with al-Sharaa, his associates who later became ministers, dissidents and opponents, as well as diplomats.
www.amazon.com/Transformed-... www.amazon.co.uk/Transformed-...

The arrival of Ahmad al-Sharaa in NYC for the UNGA is a timely moment to highlight our new book, published a few weeks ago in Europe and in a month ago in the US (already on Kindle). What lessons can we draw from the past? A threat

Our book is finally out in the UK and Europe! (also in a week or so on the kindle in the US, and early November for the hardback in North America). You have read parts of the first chapters on google book: www.google.fr/books/editio...

A stack of copies of Transformed by the People with the Somerset House courtyard visible in the background. The cover features an image of Ahmad al-Sharaa waving to crowds. There is white and yellow text that reads 'Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham's Road to Power in Syria. Patrick Haenni & Jerome Drevon.'

Congratulations Patrick Haenni and @jeromed.bsky.social, Transformed by the People is out now👏

‘Essential reading.’ @irishtimes.com

‘Haenni and Drevon have done the impossible… a gem, a superb, edifying and eye-opening account.’—Robert Malley

25% off w/code TRANSFORMED25➡️ tinyurl.com/mb4nrc7n

Really cool work out by @andresuribe.bsky.social and colleauges on estimating the prevalence of criminal governance in Latin America ⤵️

A thoroughly engrossing account of the Iranian revolution and an essential read on post-Assad Syria King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson & Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria

The first generous review of our book @irishtimes.com
"impressive study of the group, based on a wide range of detailed interviews, including with Shaara. [The book] is probably the best of its kind in English to date on the subject and is essential reading" www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The end of Jihadi Salafism? The religious governance of HTS, the Post-Jihadi rebel ruler in Northern Syria Jihadis differentiate themselves from other Muslims by their demand for an Islamic state based on their interpretation of Islamic law as well as their legitimization of violence against Muslim dome...

New article by @jeromed.bsky.social et al., The end of Jihadi Salafism? The religious governance of HTS, the Post-Jihadi rebel ruler in Northern Syria www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump to Lift Sanctions on Syria and Meet With New President President Trump, on a state visit to Saudi Arabia, said he made the decision after speaking to the Saudi crown prince. The president is trying to drum up Saudi investment in the U.S.

As POTUS meets Syrian President Al-Sharaa, the world asks how an Al-Qaeda affiliated jihadi group evolved into the movement rebuilding Syria post-Assad. Find out how in 'Transformed by the People' by @jeromed.bsky.social & Patrick Haenni. Pre-order here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mr9w9tex

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