Daniel Neep
Biographic Data
| ID | 1109737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Neep |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Neep |
| SIGNATURE | NEEP D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0247-0076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rebuilding the State in Post-Assad Syria
Voices in the international community express concerns over the need to protect minority rights in post-Assad Syria. Confessional quotas, ethnosectarian power sharing, and confederal devolution have all been proposed as potential safeguards for liberal freedoms. Syrian responses to these proposals are nevertheless shaped by the country's prior experience of the problems caused by the architectures of both identity-based politics and laissez-faire…
What have the Ottomans ever done for us?' Why history matters for politics in the Arab Middle East
Scholars of Middle East politics have been reluctant to explore how the long nineteenth century has shaped the region's political development. The reason for this neglect, I argue, is a common understanding of Ottoman decline and failed modernization, which suggests that the story of modern politics in the Middle East commences with colonial partition after the First World War. But what if political scientists are getting the story wrong? In this…
Narrating Crisis, Constructing Policy: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in Syria
During crises, ideas play a decisive role in shaping radical paradigm shifts in economic governance. However, not all crises immediately produce such ‘great transformations’. Why do some ideas result in incremental rather than abrupt change after crisis? To identify mechanisms potentially explaining this variation, I conduct an exploratory process tracing of an understudied case of incremental institutional change: post-independence Syria. Compet…
State-Space beyond Territory: Wormholes, Gravitational Fields, and Entanglement
Neo-Weberian historical sociology and political science establishes that territory is a defining feature of the modern state. Drawing on insights from political geography, I argue that 'territory' is not a pre-existing physical location, but aneffectproduced by state practices and technologies. The spatial fetish of territory, moreover, distracts analytical attention from the equally importantnon-territorialdimensions of the state. To map these n…
Cycle of fear: Syria’s Alawites in war and security
War, State Formation, and Culture
Historical sociology has long been concerned with the study of organized state violence. Since the mid-1970s, a substantial body of work has come to focus on the importance of warfare to historical processes of state formation. The first generation of this literature proposed that the relentless existential struggle between the warring polities of medieval Europe had favored the survival of states that could adopt ever more efficient means to ext…
Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation
What role does military force play during a colonial occupation? The answer seems obvious: coercion crushes local resistance, quashes political dissent and consolidates the dominance of the occupying power. However, as this discerning and theoretically rigorous study suggests, violence can have much more ambiguous consequences. Set in Syria during the French Mandate from 1920 to 1946, the book explores a turbulent period in which conflict between…
D ilemmas of D emocratization in the M iddle E ast: T he “F orward S trategy of F reedom ”
State-Space beyond Territory: Wormholes, Gravitational Fields, and Entanglement
Neo-Weberian historical sociology and political science establishes that territory is a defining feature of the modern state. Drawing on insights from political geography, I argue that 'territory' is not a pre-existing physical location, but aneffectproduced by state practices and technologies. The spatial fetish of territory, moreover, distracts analytical attention from the equally importantnon-territorialdimensions of the state. To map these n…
Narrating Crisis, Constructing Policy: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in Syria
During crises, ideas play a decisive role in shaping radical paradigm shifts in economic governance. However, not all crises immediately produce such ‘great transformations’. Why do some ideas result in incremental rather than abrupt change after crisis? To identify mechanisms potentially explaining this variation, I conduct an exploratory process tracing of an understudied case of incremental institutional change: post-independence Syria. Compet…
What have the Ottomans ever done for us?' Why history matters for politics in the Arab Middle East
Scholars of Middle East politics have been reluctant to explore how the long nineteenth century has shaped the region's political development. The reason for this neglect, I argue, is a common understanding of Ottoman decline and failed modernization, which suggests that the story of modern politics in the Middle East commences with colonial partition after the First World War. But what if political scientists are getting the story wrong? In this…
War, State Formation, and Culture
Historical sociology has long been concerned with the study of organized state violence. Since the mid-1970s, a substantial body of work has come to focus on the importance of warfare to historical processes of state formation. The first generation of this literature proposed that the relentless existential struggle between the warring polities of medieval Europe had favored the survival of states that could adopt ever more efficient means to ext…
D ilemmas of D emocratization in the M iddle E ast: T he “F orward S trategy of F reedom ”
D ilemmas of D emocratization in the M iddle E ast: T he “F orward S trategy of F reedom ”
Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation
What role does military force play during a colonial occupation? The answer seems obvious: coercion crushes local resistance, quashes political dissent and consolidates the dominance of the occupying power. However, as this discerning and theoretically rigorous study suggests, violence can have much more ambiguous consequences. Set in Syria during the French Mandate from 1920 to 1946, the book explores a turbulent period in which conflict between…
War, State Formation, and Culture
Historical sociology has long been concerned with the study of organized state violence. Since the mid-1970s, a substantial body of work has come to focus on the importance of warfare to historical processes of state formation. The first generation of this literature proposed that the relentless existential struggle between the warring polities of medieval Europe had favored the survival of states that could adopt ever more efficient means to ext…
Cycle of fear: Syria’s Alawites in war and security
Narrating Crisis, Constructing Policy: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in Syria
During crises, ideas play a decisive role in shaping radical paradigm shifts in economic governance. However, not all crises immediately produce such ‘great transformations’. Why do some ideas result in incremental rather than abrupt change after crisis? To identify mechanisms potentially explaining this variation, I conduct an exploratory process tracing of an understudied case of incremental institutional change: post-independence Syria. Compet…
State-Space beyond Territory: Wormholes, Gravitational Fields, and Entanglement
Neo-Weberian historical sociology and political science establishes that territory is a defining feature of the modern state. Drawing on insights from political geography, I argue that 'territory' is not a pre-existing physical location, but aneffectproduced by state practices and technologies. The spatial fetish of territory, moreover, distracts analytical attention from the equally importantnon-territorialdimensions of the state. To map these n…
What have the Ottomans ever done for us?' Why history matters for politics in the Arab Middle East
Scholars of Middle East politics have been reluctant to explore how the long nineteenth century has shaped the region's political development. The reason for this neglect, I argue, is a common understanding of Ottoman decline and failed modernization, which suggests that the story of modern politics in the Middle East commences with colonial partition after the First World War. But what if political scientists are getting the story wrong? In this…
Rebuilding the State in Post-Assad Syria
Voices in the international community express concerns over the need to protect minority rights in post-Assad Syria. Confessional quotas, ethnosectarian power sharing, and confederal devolution have all been proposed as potential safeguards for liberal freedoms. Syrian responses to these proposals are nevertheless shaped by the country's prior experience of the problems caused by the architectures of both identity-based politics and laissez-faire…
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