Steven Heydemann is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University in New York City and the author of "Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970" (1999)Steven Heydemann is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University in New York City and the author of "Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970" (1999)...more