Adam Baczko

Civil War in Syria (eBook, PDF)

Mobilization and Competing Social Orders

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched peacefully to demand democratic reforms. Within months, repression forced them to take arms and set up their own institutions. Two years later, the inclusive nature of the opposition had collapsed, and the PKK and radical jihadist groups rose to prominence. In just a few years, Syria turned into a full-scale civil war involving major regional and world powers. How has the war affected Syrian society? How does the fragmentation of Syria transform social and sectarian hierarchies? How does the war economy work in a country divided between the regime, the insurgency, the PKK and the Islamic State? Written by authors who have previously worked on the Iraqi, Afghan, Kurd, Libyan and Congolese armed conflicts, it includes extensive interviews and direct observations. A unique book, which combines rare field experience of the Syrian conflict with new theoretical insights on the dynamics of civil wars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108372701
• Artikelnr.: 50927070

Autorenporträt

Adam Baczko is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). His research focuses on the exercise of justice by armed groups and its political implications, with a particular focus on Afghanistan. He has carried out fieldwork in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and Syria.

Inhaltsangabe

Prolegomena: for a sociological approach to civil wars
Introduction
Part I. Genesis of a Revolution: 1. The al-Assad system
2. A revolution of anonyms
3. The path to civil war
Part II. Revolutionary Institutions: 4. The building of military capital
5. Administering the revolution
6. Mobilization outside Syria
Part III. The Fragmentation of the Iinsurrection: 7. The crisis internationalizes
8. The Kurds and the PKK
9. The Islamization of the insurgency
10. The caliphate
Part IV. A Society at War
11. The variations of social capital
12. The economy for war
13. New identity regimes
Conclusion.