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
3 - Reconceptualizing Rebel Governing Authority
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
The institutions that constitute a rebel government have long been understood and evaluated in comparable terms to those of a state government, the only difference being orientation (i.e. against versus on behalf of the state). Similarly, the doctrine underpinning modern state-building and counterinsurgency campaigns, repurposed in Syria in the service of a “good” rebellion, has emphasized the import of rationalized governance in winning the population’s support, its “hearts and minds.” In this chapter, we consider the limits of employing rational legitimacy as a conceptual outcome and offer our own – institutional closeness – as a theoretical alternative with distinct analytical possibilities for the study of insurgent rule.
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- Good Rebel GovernanceRevolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria, pp. 33 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023