Civil war in Syria : mobilization and competing social orders / Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro, Arthur Quesnay.

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 prom...

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Uniform Title:Problems of international politics.
Main Authors: Baczko, Adam (Author)
Dorronsoro, Gilles (Author)
Quesnay, Arthur (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Problems of international politics.
Subjects:
Syria > History > Civil War, 2011-
Syria > Politics and government > 2000-
Physical Description:xv, 321 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. Genesis of a revolution
  • The al-Assad system
  • A revolution of anonyms
  • The path to civil war
  • Part II. Revolutionary institutions
  • The building of military capital
  • Administering the revolution
  • Mobilization outside Syria
  • Part III. The fragmentation of the insurrection
  • The crisis internationalizes
  • The Kurds and the PKK
  • The Islamization of the insurgency
  • The caliphate
  • Part IV. A society at war
  • The variations of social capital
  • The economy for war
  • New identity regimes
  • Conclusions.