Syria’s Sect-coded Conflict: From Hezbollah’s Top-down Instrumentalization of Sectarian Identity to Its Candid Geopolitical Confrontation

This article surveys Hezbollah’s sectarian mobilization to justify its early engagement in Syria’s civil war for what was an intervention a geopolitical confrontation implement agenda coordination with regional allies. Generally speaking, relations can be driven from both above as well below. The first argues that Hezbollah is party whose timing of emergence paralleled the rise Shia Lebanon and adjoining region. It contends instrumentalized identity adopted policy ahead conflict. However, fighters were expanding across country, discourse altered more politics-centric discourse. Therefore, this concludes falsely framed conflict Syria sect-coded, top-down politicization identity, primary aim prevent regime’s collapse, which would have tilted balance power favor rivals rather than seeking religious truths on soil.