Civil War in Syria : Mobilization and Competing Social Orders (Paperback)

Prolegomena: for a sociological approach to civil wars; Introduction; Part I. Genesis of a Revolution: 1. The al-Assad system; 2. A revolution of anonyms; 3. The path to civil war; Part II. Revolutionary Institutions: 4. The building of military capital; 5. Administering the revolution; 6. Mobilization outside Syria; Part III. The Fragmentation of the Iinsurrection: 7. The crisis internationalizes; 8. The Kurds and the PKK; 9. The Islamization of the insurgency; 10. The caliphate; Part IV. A Society at War; 11. The variations of social capital; 12. The economy for war; 13. New identity regimes; Conclusion.