Reviews 199 to change and adapt. This point is implicit in his treatment of the dialectical relationship between networks and context but could have been emphasized more.On the whole, this is an analytically engaging text. It is extremely well written and substantively rich. Haddad is careful not to treat networks as nebulous actors but rather gives them structural and political meaning in the specific context of Syria. In treating the forms of agency that networks acquire and exercise with nuance and complexity, the book provides excellent insight into the multiple processes that have come to define contemporary Syria and the various social, political, and economic actors that have shaped it. Its central argument is convincing, and it gives observers of Syria's political economy an excellent grounding with which to understand political-economic change.
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