#76 Syria - Authoritarian Apprehensions w/ Lisa Wedeen

Lisa Wedeen joins me to discuss her new book, Authoritarian
Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria. We spoke
about the strategies the Syrian regime has adopted in order to
maintain a degree of public support, the neoliberal turn of Syrian
society under Bashar al-Assad, how authoritarian leaders exploit
digital media to create uncertainty, and the relevance of Louis
Althusser's concept of interpellation to the regime's endurance. To
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