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Number of Assad Speeches Included in the Analyses from 2000-2013.
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A Quick Look Assessment by the Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA)
A multi-method assessment of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
This report suggests potential types of actions and messages most likely to influence and deter Bashar al-Assad from using force in the ongoing Syrian civil war. This study is based on multidisciplinary analyses of B...
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... with the period of the past six years being sampled most. The analyzed text was from open-source translations of 124 speeches, which comprise the totality of English translations available for the (see study Table 2). Additional Twitter feeds were analyzed to gauge his influence in the region. ...Citations
... The most thorough, comprehensive, and for this paper certainly most relevant in-depth analysis is provided by Cabayan & Wright (2014a, 2014b, who used 124 speeches of the Syrian leader given between 2000 and 2013 to analyse the character and conduct of Assad and propose policy behaviour towards Syria based on these assessments. Among the various methods employed in the study of Cabayan & Wright, Spitaletta (2014), as the authors of this paper, conducted a leadership trait analysis of Assad. Spitaletta's results, while congruent with many findings of this paper, are based solely on speeches by Assad. ...
... This point of view is supported by Jenkins (2014), who argues that Assad was aware of his lack of control over foreign volunteers, regime-friendly militias, and Hezbollah fighters. In Spitaletta's (2014) leadership trait analysis of Assad, the Syrian leader scores 0.42 for his belief to be able to control events. Diverging only 0.01 from our result, Spitaletta (2014) concludes that Assad is "unlikely to be overly proactive or reactive in policy-making" (p. ...
... In Spitaletta's (2014) leadership trait analysis of Assad, the Syrian leader scores 0.42 for his belief to be able to control events. Diverging only 0.01 from our result, Spitaletta (2014) concludes that Assad is "unlikely to be overly proactive or reactive in policy-making" (p. 73). ...
More than a decade after the first sprouts of the Arab Spring started to blossom in December 2010, much has changed in the Arab world. But while political groups, leaders, and movements were swept away over the course of the ensuing events, reign over Syria remains firmly in the hands of Bashar Al-Assad. By analysing Assad’s leadership style through a quantitative analysis of various personality traits, this paper endeavours to produce insights into the capabilities, behaviour, and character features that allow a leader to preserve power even under the most ad-verse conditions. The leadership trait analysis concludes that Assad, depending on the context, can be categorised as having either a reactive or accommodative leadership style – he evaluates his possibilities in a given situation and considers what important actors will favour or allow. He focuses on building consensus in his environment, empowers others around him to share accountability, and reconciles differences between groups or people that he relies on. Link: https://www.e-ir.info/2022/07/12/improvise-adapt-overcome-a-leadership-trait-analysis-of-bashar-al-assad/.
My chapter is called "Narrative Foundations: Operational Advisor's Edition" and it starts on page 55.
Entire paper Abstract:
“Information” continues to demonstrate the vital and preeminent role it plays in enabling all of our sources of national power. From a military perspective, it must be adequately utilized and capitalized on to succeed in shaping the cognitive/human domain (the ultimate goal of all military activities). Effective communications, which is an essential aspect of understanding and engaging the cognitive domain, is often made up of narratives in foreign languages that are written and spoken by individuals and groups from other cultures. If we are going to understand these narratives and the history, values, beliefs, behavior patterns and context they provide, we must examine communications from the perspective of ‘the other’.
