Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase: Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime Resilience

ISBN-13: 9781032185125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 436 str.

Jasmine K. Gani; Raymond Hinnebusch

Opis

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."

Spis treści

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