UID:
almafu_9961119058702883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 227 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-108-80244-3
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1-108-80954-5
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1-108-77801-1
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2023).
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Introduction -- The good governance bazaar -- Reconceptualizing rebel governance -- Studying Syria "from the verandah" -- Raqqa's caliphal social contract -- Saraqeb's limited access order -- Darayya's fervent enclave -- Aleppo city's Republican Guild -- The Syrian interim government as "floating" counter-state -- Revolutionary possibilities and international imaginings.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-47854-9
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778015
