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Aurélie Daher is a researcher at Sciences Po, CERI in Paris, where she received a PhD in Political Science. She held a postdoctoral fellow position at the University of Oxford from 2010-2011 and a postdoctoral research associate position at Princeton University from 2012-2013. Her work focuses on Hezbollah, the Shiites, Lebanese and Middle Eastern politics. Her publications include Hezbollah. Mobilisation and Power (London: Hurst & Co./New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming March 2016).
This essay explores what Hezbollah seek to accomplish through its intervention in Syria, how it views the conflict in Syria, the outcome it desires, and the possible adverse impact of Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria upon its popularity and mobilization in Lebanon.
