| Description |
1 online resource (x, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 not only theorizes about the nature of authoritative rebel governance but also tests the long-standing precepts that have undergirded Western promotion of democracy abroad"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2023) |
| Subject |
Insurgency -- Political aspects -- Syria
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Democratization -- Syria
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Democratization -- Government policy -- United States
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Interim governments -- Syria
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General.
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Democratization.
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Democratization -- Government policy.
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Interim governments.
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Military participation -- American.
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| SUBJECT |
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Political aspects
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Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Participation, American
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| Subject |
Syria.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Howe, Kimberly, 1974- author.
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| LC no. |
2022045267 |
| ISBN |
9781108778015 |
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1108778011 |
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