Spoils of War in the Arab East

Aziz Al-Azmeh is Professor at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Yale University and University of California, Berkeley in the US and at the Institut d’Etudes Politique in France. He has been a long-term fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany, among others, and twice Directeur de Recherches Associé at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in France. He has served on the Advisory Council of the UNDP Arab Human Development Reports.Harout Akdedian is Carnegie SFM Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria, and a visiting scholar at the Middle East Studies Centre of Portland State University, US. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of New England, Australia.Haian Dukhan is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Central European University, Vienna and a fellow of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has taught politics and international relations at the University of St Andrews, UK, the University of Leicester, UK and the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Reconstituting the Post-conflict Register, Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University, Vienna, Austria and Harout Akdedian, Central European University, Vienna, AustriaPart 1: Conceptual and Global Exploration of the ‘Post-conflict’ Register2. Peacebuilding: A Liberal State Building Imperative in Post-conflict Registers? Perspectives from Comparison, Balazs Kovacs, UN University for Peace, Costa Rica3. Ceasefire Agreements and the Post-conflict Register: A Continuation of war by Other Means, Marika Sosnowski, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany Part 2: Reconstitution of Power in Syria and Iraq: Military Standoffs and Conflict Fragility4. Paramilitarism in Syria and Iraq: The Interpenetration of Militias and the State, Ugur Ungor, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands5. Conflict Transformation, Security Fragmentation, and Government Architecture in Post-War Southern Syria, Abdullah Al-Jabassini, European University Institute, Florence, Italy6. From Devolution to Reconstitution? Dynamics of the Local Devolution of State Power in Syria and Iraq: Tribal Auxiliaries in the Margin, Teeside University, UK7. Conflicted Counterinsurgency: Daesh vs Iraq’s Security Arena, Jessica Watkins, London School of Economcis, UK Part 3: The Political Economy and Geopolitics of Emergent Orders in Syria and Iraq8. The War Economy in Syria: Consolidating the pre-2011 Dynamics of Syria’s Political Economy, Joseph Daher, Lausanne University, Switzerland9. Turkey's Geopolitical Role in Shaping Political Vectors and Patterns of Power Configuration in Iraqi Kurdistan, Bahadir Dincer, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Germany10. The Shadow Economy of Shabbiha Networks: Local Systems of Patronage under the Assad Rule, Ali Aljasem, Utrecht University, NetherlandsPart 4: The Body Politic Reconfigured: Between Social Engineering and Community Resistance11. The State from Tahrir Square: Understanding Protestors’ Conceptions of the Iraqi State, Irene Costantini, University of Naples, Italy & Yasmin Chilmeran, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden 12. Resisting War in Syria: Civilian-Led Community Protection Efforts and their Limits, Harout Akdedian, Central European University, Vienna, Austria and Ali Aljasem, University of Montreal, Canada 13. For Assad’s sake – Religion, the State and Refitting Syrian Islam, Hammoud Hammoud, Free University of Berlin, Germany14. Building, Living, Feeling the space of Aleppo City: Social Polarization at the Heart of Population Engineering, Marie Kostrz, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland15. Dilemmas of Interventions in Northern Syria: Refugee Return, Reconstruction, and Displacements, Zeynep Sahin-Mencütek, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany & Bahadir Dincer, BICC Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, Germany

Postwar conditions are sometimes no more than a continuation of war by other warlike means. Iraq and Syria plainly illustrate this fact. Empirically and theoretically rich, this book is an important contribution to the analysis of these two countries as well as to the general field of post-conflict studies.