Table of Contents
Comparative Perspectives
1. Deniz Kandiyoti: From the Margins to The Centre? How Gender Politics Became A Litmus Test of Governance.
2. Stathis Kalyvas: Arab Civil Wars: An Assessment.
Part I: States, Political Economies and Systematic Collapse
1. Mudher Al-Alwani: Iraqi Market and Ethnic-Sectarian Bioregionalism.
2. Isam Al-Khafaji: Reconfiguring the State, Restructuring Communities.
3. Virginie Collombier: Post-Qaddafi Libya: Political Agreements or A New Social Contract?
4. Adam Hanieh: State Formation In The Middle East: The GCC and the Political Economy of the Regional Scale.
5. Shamel Azmeh: The Political Economy of Syria and Iraq.
Part II: The Devolution of Violence: Militias, Security and War Economies
1. Omar Ashour: The (Military) Rise of Armed Non-State Actors: The Case of Isis.
2. Hosham Dawood: Tribes and Violence in Armed Conflict: An Anthropologist’s View.
3. Frederic Wehrey: Hybridised Security Governance: The Case of Libya.
Part III: Reconfigurations of Religion: From the Margins to the Centre
1. Harout Akdedian: The Reconfiguration of the Religious Field in Syria: From Neoliberalism to State Atrophy and Beyond.
2. Harith Hasan: Religious Actors, Political (Dis)Order and the Reconfiguration of Margincenter Relations In Iraq: The Case of the Shii Clerical Authority.
3: Haider Saeed, The Sect and the Nation.
Part IV: Localities
1. Asya El-Meehy: Governance from Below: Comparing Local Experiments in Egypt and Syria After the Uprisings.
2. Asma Jameel: Families of Daesh: Retribution and Forgiveness.
Part V: Jihadism and Local Networks
1. Hamzeh Al-Mustafa: Virtual Networks During the Syrian Revolution
2. Haenni, Patrick: The Reorganization and Securitization of Daesh Strongholds
3. Mazur, Kevin, Dayr Al-Zur: From Revolution to Isis: Local Networks, Hybrid Identities and Outside Authorities.
Part VI: State Disaggregation and Geopolitics
1. Arjomand, Said: Daesh and Iran’s Islamic Revolution in Historical Perspective.
2. Kodmani, Bassma: The Future of the Syrian State.
3. Saunders, Robert A.: Extending the Katechon: Religio-Civilizational Vectors in Russia’s Intervention in the Levant.