"Post-conflict scenarios are often proposed for Arab countries that have witnessed significant changes and civil wars. Yet the plans for reconciliation, transitional justice, and the return of the displaced often overlook the real conditions that make these recommendations impossible. This book provides a critical analysis of current post-conflict frameworks for Syria and Iraq. Drawing on empirical research, the book shows that reconciliation and reconstruction scenarios need to be considered alongside the realities on the ground. It argues that Iraq and Syria exist in a condition of 'conflict…mehr
"Post-conflict scenarios are often proposed for Arab countries that have witnessed significant changes and civil wars. Yet the plans for reconciliation, transitional justice, and the return of the displaced often overlook the real conditions that make these recommendations impossible. This book provides a critical analysis of current post-conflict frameworks for Syria and Iraq. Drawing on empirical research, the book shows that reconciliation and reconstruction scenarios need to be considered alongside the realities on the ground. It argues that Iraq and Syria exist in a condition of 'conflict transformation' rather than of 'conflict termination', because the extreme changes that accompanied these countries into war continue long after the conflicts end. Furthermore, the chapters highlight why experts should not seek solutions in culturalist terms and ancestral enmities, or rely on the wartime status quo. Rather, they should look to the specific military, political, economic and socio-cultural conditions that require different solutions. A critical analysis of existing post-conflict frameworks, their applicability and their potential outcomes in Iraq and Syria, the book is a vital contribution to post-conflict studies. It highlights the need for new approaches to reconstruction and peacebuilding in Arab countries and points to how they should be found"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Aziz Al-Azmeh is Professor at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Yale University and University of California, Berkeley in the US and at the Institut d'Etudes Politique in France. He has been a long-term fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany, among others, and twice Directeur de Recherches Associé at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in France. He has served on the Advisory Council of the UNDP Arab Human Development Reports. Harout Akdedian is Carnegie SFM Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria, and a visiting scholar at the Middle East Studies Centre of Portland State University, US. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of New England, Australia. Haian Dukhan is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Central European University, Vienna and a fellow of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has taught politics and international relations at the University of St Andrews, UK, the University of Leicester, UK and the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Reconstituting the Post-conflict Register Aziz Al-Azmeh Central European University Vienna Austria and Harout Akdedian Central European University Vienna Austria Part 1: Conceptual and Global Exploration of the 'Post-conflict' Register 2. Peacebuilding: A Liberal State Building Imperative in Post-conflict Registers? Perspectives from Comparison Balazs Kovacs UN University for Peace Costa Rica 3. Ceasefire Agreements and the Post-conflict Register: A Continuation of war by Other Means Marika Sosnowski German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Hamburg Germany Part 2: Reconstitution of Power in Syria and Iraq: Military Standoffs and Conflict Fragility 4. Paramilitarism in Syria and Iraq: The Interpenetration of Militias and the State Ugur Ungor University of Amsterdam Netherlands 5. Conflict Transformation Security Fragmentation and Government Architecture in Post-War Southern Syria Abdullah Al-Jabassini European University Institute Florence Italy 6. From Devolution to Reconstitution? Dynamics of the Local Devolution of State Power in Syria and Iraq: Tribal Auxiliaries in the Margin Teeside University UK 7. Conflicted Counterinsurgency: Daesh vs Iraq's Security Arena Jessica Watkins London School of Economcis UK Part 3: The Political Economy and Geopolitics of Emergent Orders in Syria and Iraq 8. The War Economy in Syria: Consolidating the pre-2011 Dynamics of Syria's Political Economy Joseph Daher Lausanne University Switzerland 9. Turkey's Geopolitical Role in Shaping Political Vectors and Patterns of Power Configuration in Iraqi Kurdistan Bahadir Dincer Bonn International Center for Conversion Germany 10. The Shadow Economy of Shabbiha Networks: Local Systems of Patronage under the Assad Rule Ali Aljasem Utrecht University Netherlands Part 4: The Body Politic Reconfigured: Between Social Engineering and Community Resistance 11. The State from Tahrir Square: Understanding Protestors' Conceptions of the Iraqi State Irene Costantini University of Naples Italy & Yasmin Chilmeran The Swedish Institute of International Affairs Stockholm Sweden 12. Resisting War in Syria: Civilian-Led Community Protection Efforts and their Limits Harout Akdedian Central European University Vienna Austria and Ali Aljasem University of Montreal Canada 13. For Assad's sake - Religion the State and Refitting Syrian Islam Hammoud Hammoud Free University of Berlin Germany 14. Building Living Feeling the space of Aleppo City: Social Polarization at the Heart of Population Engineering Marie Kostrz The Graduate Institute Geneva Switzerland 15. Dilemmas of Interventions in Northern Syria: Refugee Return Reconstruction and Displacements Zeynep Sahin-Mencütek University of Duisburg-Essen Germany & Bahadir Dincer BICC Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies Germany
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Reconstituting the Post-conflict Register Aziz Al-Azmeh Central European University Vienna Austria and Harout Akdedian Central European University Vienna Austria Part 1: Conceptual and Global Exploration of the 'Post-conflict' Register 2. Peacebuilding: A Liberal State Building Imperative in Post-conflict Registers? Perspectives from Comparison Balazs Kovacs UN University for Peace Costa Rica 3. Ceasefire Agreements and the Post-conflict Register: A Continuation of war by Other Means Marika Sosnowski German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Hamburg Germany Part 2: Reconstitution of Power in Syria and Iraq: Military Standoffs and Conflict Fragility 4. Paramilitarism in Syria and Iraq: The Interpenetration of Militias and the State Ugur Ungor University of Amsterdam Netherlands 5. Conflict Transformation Security Fragmentation and Government Architecture in Post-War Southern Syria Abdullah Al-Jabassini European University Institute Florence Italy 6. From Devolution to Reconstitution? Dynamics of the Local Devolution of State Power in Syria and Iraq: Tribal Auxiliaries in the Margin Teeside University UK 7. Conflicted Counterinsurgency: Daesh vs Iraq's Security Arena Jessica Watkins London School of Economcis UK Part 3: The Political Economy and Geopolitics of Emergent Orders in Syria and Iraq 8. The War Economy in Syria: Consolidating the pre-2011 Dynamics of Syria's Political Economy Joseph Daher Lausanne University Switzerland 9. Turkey's Geopolitical Role in Shaping Political Vectors and Patterns of Power Configuration in Iraqi Kurdistan Bahadir Dincer Bonn International Center for Conversion Germany 10. The Shadow Economy of Shabbiha Networks: Local Systems of Patronage under the Assad Rule Ali Aljasem Utrecht University Netherlands Part 4: The Body Politic Reconfigured: Between Social Engineering and Community Resistance 11. The State from Tahrir Square: Understanding Protestors' Conceptions of the Iraqi State Irene Costantini University of Naples Italy & Yasmin Chilmeran The Swedish Institute of International Affairs Stockholm Sweden 12. Resisting War in Syria: Civilian-Led Community Protection Efforts and their Limits Harout Akdedian Central European University Vienna Austria and Ali Aljasem University of Montreal Canada 13. For Assad's sake - Religion the State and Refitting Syrian Islam Hammoud Hammoud Free University of Berlin Germany 14. Building Living Feeling the space of Aleppo City: Social Polarization at the Heart of Population Engineering Marie Kostrz The Graduate Institute Geneva Switzerland 15. Dilemmas of Interventions in Northern Syria: Refugee Return Reconstruction and Displacements Zeynep Sahin-Mencütek University of Duisburg-Essen Germany & Bahadir Dincer BICC Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies Germany
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