In their book, Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria, Dipali Mukhopadhyay and Kimberly Howe consider variation in the practice of “counter-state” governance in Syria between 2014 and 2016, particularly emphasizing that it is imperative for would-be and actual governors to maintain a closeness with their constituents in order to be seen…
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Article Review 114 on “The Future of Chemical Weapons: Implications from the Syrian Civil War.”
Geoffrey Chapman, Hassan Elbahtimy, and Susan B. Martin test a framework for assessing the security implications of chemical weapons (CW) use in the twenty-first century in their recent Security Studies paper. The authors state that they were motivated by the erosion of a norm of disuse, commonly known as the chemical weapons taboo.[1] In this…