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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2018

Karim Atassi

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Syria, the Strength of an Idea
The Constitutional Architectures of Its Political Regimes
 , pp. xvii - xviii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

Abbreviations

AFS

Arab Federal State

ALM

Arab Liberation Movement

BMA

Ba’th Bureau of Military Affairs

BMC

Ba’th Military Committee

CUP

Committee of Union and Progress

FAR

Federation of Arab Republics

NCRC

National Council of the Revolutionary Command, highest authority governing Syria from the coup of 8 March 1963 to the coup of February 1966

NPF

National Progressive Front

NRC

National Revolutionary Council set up in September 1965 and extended in February 1966. Legislative body and authority controlling the executive, created by the 1964 provisional constitution

NSC

National Security Council

NSF

National Salvation Front

PLA

Palestine Liberation Army

PRC

Ba’th Provisional Regional Command

PYD

Democratic Union Party

SARCAF

Supreme Arab Revolutionary Command of the Armed Forces

SCP

Syrian Communist Party

SDF

Syrian Democratic Forces

SSNP or SPP

Syrian Social Nationalist Party supporter of a Greater Syria also called the SPP or Syrian People’s Party

UAR

United Arab Republic of Syria and Egypt (1958–61) and Syria, Egypt, and Iraq in 1963

UNSCR

United Nations Security Council Resolution

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