ABSTRACT
Security is a key problématique in the specific case of Syria. Security is closely associated with Syria as a result of the strategic location of this pivotal state that was thrown after independence into a hectic and dangerously unstable regional environment. Security took further complex tones as it was also a way to govern Syria for an authoritarian regime, especially after the Assad dynasty seized power. This security-everywhere perspective was challenged by the 2011 uprising that represented a fundamental demand to reformulate security and in particular to understand it as individual security, because the mobilizations came from within society. That momentum was lost in 2012–13, in particular because the regime re-securitized everything with a systematic destruction of the country and population displacements. Other factors such as radical jihadism added to the destructive potential of insecurities, constituting Syria as a core hotspot of insecurity in the Middle East and even in global international relations in 2018.
