The Syrian Social Nationalist Party

The emergence of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) during the Syrian civil war as a military and political force has elicited interest and debate among observers and analysts of the Middle East. Long considered as irrevocably marginalized by decades of prohibition and persecution, the SSNP has over the last decade re-asserted itself as the pre-eminent organization in both Syria and Lebanon with an untarnished secular pedigree.

Since its founding in 1932, the SSNP has been subjected ...