Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase (eBook, ePUB)

Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime Resilience
Redaktion: Gani, Jasmine K.; Hinnebusch, Raymond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume covers the "middle" time period of the Syrian uprising, roughly from 2012 when Syria's peaceful protest began to mutate into a violent insurgency and civil war until roughly 2018 when the conflict took on features of a "frozen conflict."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000545937
• Artikelnr.: 63616594

Autorenporträt

Jasmine K. Gani is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research, supervision, and teaching focus on three main areas: the history of European and US empires in the Middle East and Asia, with particular focus on US-Syrian relations; ideologies and social movements in the Middle East; and postcolonial thought and history. She is the author of The Role of Ideology in Syrian-US Relations: Conflict and Cooperation, and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on the Middle East and North Africa State and States System (with Raymond Hinnebusch). Raymond Hinnebusch is professor of international relations and Middle East politics and founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St. Andrews. His works include Authoritarian Power and State Formation in Ba'thist Syria (1990) and Syria: Revolution from Above (Routledge: 2001); he co-edited Syria: From Reform to Revolt, (Syracuse, 2014); The Syrian Uprising: Domestic Factors and Early Trajectory (Routledge 2018) and The War for Syria: Regional and International Factors in the Syrian Conflict (Routledge 2019), and edited After the Arab Uprisings: Between Democratization, Counter-revolution and State Failure (Routledge 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction, The Syrian Uprising: Between Peaceful Protest and State
Failure Part I. Critical Junctures 2. Governance amidst Civil War: from
Failing Statehood to Competitive regime Re-formation 3. Three Faces of the
Syrian Contentious Movement: 'Externalisation' of Contention in the Middle
Phase of the Syrian Conflict 4. The Syrian Civil War's 2015 Impasse: How
Russia's Intervention Turned the Tide 5. International Conflict Mediation
in Syria: From 'Transformation' to 'Containment' Part II. Local Contentious
Politics 6. The Struggle for Territory: Territorial fragmentation and
Competitive Governance in Syria through three case studies 7. The Syrian
Interim Government: Potential thwarted by domestic 'irrelevance' and
foreign neglect 8. Who owns the law? Logics of Insurgent Courts in the
Syrian War (2012 - 2017) 9. The Battle for Deir ez-Zor (2011-2017) Part
III. Militarisation, Division, and Regime Resilience 10. Alawite Opposition
and the Rise of ISIS 11. Tribes at War 12. Tracing Kurdish Politics in
Syria and its Prospects 13. How did Muhajiroun become Jihadists? Foreign
Fighters and the Geopolitics of the Conflict in Syria Part IV. The War
Economy 14. Capital, Business Elites and the Syrian Uprising 15. Syria's
Banking Sector: from crony capitalism to a survivalist strategy amidst the
Syrian conflict 16. Division and Cooperation among Syrian Businessmen in
Turkey: an Investigation of the Political and Economic Behaviour of Syrian
Business Migrants Part V. Transnationalism in the Syrian Conflict:
Intellectuals to Refugees 17. Syrians and the Quest for their voice 18.
Syrian Intellectuals and the Media: competing narratives and discursive
wars 19. The Syrian Humanitarian Disaster: Understanding Perceptions and
Aspirations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey 20. Trans-local Activism and the
Syrian struggle in global politics - Civil society, agency, and 'new'
political spaces