Omar S Dahi
Biographic Data
| ID | 176645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omar S Dahi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omar S |
| FAMILY NAME | Dahi |
| SIGNATURE | DAHI O S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hampshire College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1076-8120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Syria’s Dynasty Collapsed
The Assad regime, with backing from allies Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, seemed to have survived a long civil war that began in 2011, and was beginning to emerge from regional isolation. But when Islamist forces led an offensive from their enclave in late 2024, a dynasty that had lasted five decades suddenly crumbled. Though Hafez al-Assad had brought stability to Syria, his son Bashar presided over a period of decline. Corruption hollowed out the…
Multipolarity symposium
This paper introduces the three articles that were a part of Security in Context and Review of Social Economy joint symposium that took place at the University of Oklahoma. The three papers include “Multipolarity and the New South-South Relations: Myth vs. Reality” by Omar Dahi and Firat Demir, “Security in Context (SiC): A Novel Theoretical and Empirical Approach to the US-China Rivalry” by Min Ye, and “A Political Economy Analysis of Changes an…
Multipolarity and the New South–South relations
A consensus is emerging among academics regarding the rise of a multipolar world order, defined by the diminishing hegemony of Western powers and the growing power and influence of nations in the Global South. However, consensus on the extent of multipolarity, its metrics, and its implications remains elusive. In this paper, we examine the ‘New South–South relations’ to highlight the growing significance of trade, finance, and cooperation among S…
Syrian War Economies
Accounts of the Syrian conflict tend to emphasize “top-down” geopolitics or “bottom-up” local-national conflict dynamics. As a contribution to this roundtable on rethinking war economies, I argue that political economy and comparative approaches can help explain the connections between global-regional processes and domestic institutional transformations brought by war. Institutional development under Asad left a contradictory legacy: the Syrian r…
The Latin East
Towards a Beirut School of critical security studies
This collectively written work offers a map of our ongoing efforts to work through critical approaches to the study of security and global politics with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, engaging both experiences and voices of scholars from and working in the region. The unique contribution of the project, we suggest, is threefold. First, we reflect on our commitment to decolonial pedagogy, and how our collective experiences organising…
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
For proponents of the view that anthropogenic climate change will become a ‘threat multiplier’ for instability in the decades ahead, the Syrian civil war has become a recurring reference point, providing apparently compelling evidence that such conflict effects are already with us. According to this view, human-induced climatic change was a contributory factor in the extreme drought experienced within Syria prior to its civil war; this drought in…
The Political Economy of the Egyptian and Arab Revolt
This article advances a framework for understanding the political economy of the Egyptian and Arab revolts. After almost three decades of implementing neoliberal economic policies, the Egyptian economy was nevertheless stagnating in the early 2000s and political unrest was increasing. In response two key policy decisions were undertaken by the ruling elite, one to embark on a programme of further liberalisation and privatisation in the hope of at…
Revolts in Syria
With the popular revolt in Syria entering its ninth month, it is becoming more evident that the current regime is reaching its historical limits. To understand the origin of these revolts, however, one needs to explore the longer-term history. This report situates Syria's uprisings within the wider Arab trajectory and argues that the state socialist model built by the Syrian Ba'ath in the 1960s has given way to an organic relationship between Wes…
Asymmetric effects of financial development on South–South and South–North trade
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
For proponents of the view that anthropogenic climate change will become a ‘threat multiplier’ for instability in the decades ahead, the Syrian civil war has become a recurring reference point, providing apparently compelling evidence that such conflict effects are already with us. According to this view, human-induced climatic change was a contributory factor in the extreme drought experienced within Syria prior to its civil war; this drought in…
Towards a Beirut School of critical security studies
This collectively written work offers a map of our ongoing efforts to work through critical approaches to the study of security and global politics with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, engaging both experiences and voices of scholars from and working in the region. The unique contribution of the project, we suggest, is threefold. First, we reflect on our commitment to decolonial pedagogy, and how our collective experiences organising…
Revolts in Syria
With the popular revolt in Syria entering its ninth month, it is becoming more evident that the current regime is reaching its historical limits. To understand the origin of these revolts, however, one needs to explore the longer-term history. This report situates Syria's uprisings within the wider Arab trajectory and argues that the state socialist model built by the Syrian Ba'ath in the 1960s has given way to an organic relationship between Wes…
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
Asymmetric effects of financial development on South–South and South–North trade
The Political Economy of the Egyptian and Arab Revolt
This article advances a framework for understanding the political economy of the Egyptian and Arab revolts. After almost three decades of implementing neoliberal economic policies, the Egyptian economy was nevertheless stagnating in the early 2000s and political unrest was increasing. In response two key policy decisions were undertaken by the ruling elite, one to embark on a programme of further liberalisation and privatisation in the hope of at…
Revolts in Syria
With the popular revolt in Syria entering its ninth month, it is becoming more evident that the current regime is reaching its historical limits. To understand the origin of these revolts, however, one needs to explore the longer-term history. This report situates Syria's uprisings within the wider Arab trajectory and argues that the state socialist model built by the Syrian Ba'ath in the 1960s has given way to an organic relationship between Wes…
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
For proponents of the view that anthropogenic climate change will become a ‘threat multiplier’ for instability in the decades ahead, the Syrian civil war has become a recurring reference point, providing apparently compelling evidence that such conflict effects are already with us. According to this view, human-induced climatic change was a contributory factor in the extreme drought experienced within Syria prior to its civil war; this drought in…
The Latin East
Towards a Beirut School of critical security studies
This collectively written work offers a map of our ongoing efforts to work through critical approaches to the study of security and global politics with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, engaging both experiences and voices of scholars from and working in the region. The unique contribution of the project, we suggest, is threefold. First, we reflect on our commitment to decolonial pedagogy, and how our collective experiences organising…
Syrian War Economies
Accounts of the Syrian conflict tend to emphasize “top-down” geopolitics or “bottom-up” local-national conflict dynamics. As a contribution to this roundtable on rethinking war economies, I argue that political economy and comparative approaches can help explain the connections between global-regional processes and domestic institutional transformations brought by war. Institutional development under Asad left a contradictory legacy: the Syrian r…
How Syria’s Dynasty Collapsed
The Assad regime, with backing from allies Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, seemed to have survived a long civil war that began in 2011, and was beginning to emerge from regional isolation. But when Islamist forces led an offensive from their enclave in late 2024, a dynasty that had lasted five decades suddenly crumbled. Though Hafez al-Assad had brought stability to Syria, his son Bashar presided over a period of decline. Corruption hollowed out the…
Multipolarity symposium
This paper introduces the three articles that were a part of Security in Context and Review of Social Economy joint symposium that took place at the University of Oklahoma. The three papers include “Multipolarity and the New South-South Relations: Myth vs. Reality” by Omar Dahi and Firat Demir, “Security in Context (SiC): A Novel Theoretical and Empirical Approach to the US-China Rivalry” by Min Ye, and “A Political Economy Analysis of Changes an…
Multipolarity and the New South–South relations
A consensus is emerging among academics regarding the rise of a multipolar world order, defined by the diminishing hegemony of Western powers and the growing power and influence of nations in the Global South. However, consensus on the extent of multipolarity, its metrics, and its implications remains elusive. In this paper, we examine the ‘New South–South relations’ to highlight the growing significance of trade, finance, and cooperation among S…
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