Good Rebel Governance

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-74590-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 185 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukhopadhyay, Dipali

Howe, Kimberly

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Mukhopadhyay, Dipali
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.

Howe, Kimberly
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.