Good Rebel Governance - Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Kimberly Howe

Good Rebel Governance

Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria
Buch | Softcover
185 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-74590-1 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
Using original fieldwork that centers a variety of Syrian perspectives, this book offers a novel argument to scholars of war, intervention, and the Middle East about the emergence of governing authority during conflict and the possibilities and limits of Western intervention therein.
When a revolutionary uprising erupted in Syria during the spring of 2011, pockets of local resistance and the nascent institutions therein transformed into clusters of rudimentary participatory politics and service delivery. Despite the collective fatigue induced by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States and its allies embarked on an effort to encourage liberal, democratic politics amid the Syrian conflict. As a result, the project of 'good rebel governance' became the latest attempt at Western democracy promotion. This book moves the scholarship on insurgent rule forward by considering how governing authority arises and evolves during violent conflict, and whether particular institutions of insurgent rule can be cultivated through foreign intervention. In so doing, the book theorizes not only about the nature of authoritative rebel governance but also tests the long-standing precepts that have undergirded Western promotion of democracy abroad.

Dipali Mukhopadhyay is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. She authored Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan (2014), short-listed for the biennial Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award. She is a Senior Expert on Afghanistan at the US Institute of Peace. Kimberly Howe is Assistant Research Professor at the Friedman School and Research Director of Conflict and Governance at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. She has conducted conflict-focused research in over a dozen countries and regularly provides consultation to governments, international organizations and NGOs on their humanitarian, development and stabilization polices and initiatives.

1. Introduction; 2. The good governance bazaar; 3. Reconceptualizing rebel governance; 4. Studying Syria 'From the Verandah'; 5. Raqqa's caliphal social contract; 6. Saraqeb's limited access order; 7. Darayya's fervent enclave; 8. Aleppo city's republican guild; 9. The Syrian interim government as 'Floating' counter-state; 10. Revolutionary possibilities and international imaginings.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 360 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-108-74590-3 / 1108745903
ISBN-13 978-1-108-74590-1 / 9781108745901
Zustand Neuware
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