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9 - The Syrian Interim Government as “Floating” Counter-State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2023

Dipali Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Kimberly Howe
Affiliation:
Tufts University, Massachusetts
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We have worked to establish, throughout this book, that institutional closeness is both an important and understudied good for rebels striving to achieve authoritative rule. We explored various forms of closeness through connection and the means by which they mediated the management of coercion and capital in local insurgent-controlled communities. We also considered the possibilities and limits of these social solidarities to compensate for these young institutions’ material deficiencies. But, ultimately, absent the sinews of national institutions capable of binding them to one another, even the most authoritative of local opposition councils, while markers of profound political change, would remain perpetually disaggregated in structure and effect. Therefore, in this penultimate chapter, we move from the local level of insurgent politics up to the national level to examine the opposition institution of the Syrian Interim Government (SIG) that was meant (and failed) to bring the counter-state together.1

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Good Rebel Governance
Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria
, pp. 140 - 156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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