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