Book contents
- Good Rebel Governance
- Good Rebel Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The “Good Governance Bazaar”
- 3 Reconceptualizing Rebel Governing Authority
- 4 Studying Syria “from the Verandah”
- 5 Raqqa’s Caliphal Social Contract
- 6 Saraqeb’s “Limited Access Order”
- 7 The Fervent Enclave of Darayya
- 8 Aleppo’s Republican Guild
- 9 The Syrian Interim Government as “Floating” Counter-State
- 10 Revolutionary Possibilities and International Imaginings
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
9 - The Syrian Interim Government as “Floating” Counter-State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2023
- Good Rebel Governance
- Good Rebel Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The “Good Governance Bazaar”
- 3 Reconceptualizing Rebel Governing Authority
- 4 Studying Syria “from the Verandah”
- 5 Raqqa’s Caliphal Social Contract
- 6 Saraqeb’s “Limited Access Order”
- 7 The Fervent Enclave of Darayya
- 8 Aleppo’s Republican Guild
- 9 The Syrian Interim Government as “Floating” Counter-State
- 10 Revolutionary Possibilities and International Imaginings
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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 GovernanceRevolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria, pp. 140 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023