{"id":42324,"date":"2021-05-28T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espol.univ-catholille.fr\/?p=42324"},"modified":"2021-05-31T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:09:24","slug":"journal-article-grzybowski-j-2021-re-enacting-the-international-order-or-why-the-syrian-state-did-not-disappear-review-of-international-studies-1-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espol-lille.eu\/en\/journal-article-grzybowski-j-2021-re-enacting-the-international-order-or-why-the-syrian-state-did-not-disappear-review-of-international-studies-1-20\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Grzybowski, J. (2021). Re-enacting the international order, or: Why the Syrian state did not disappear. Review of International Studies, 1-20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
At the height of the Syrian civil war, many observers argued that the Syrian state was collapsing, fragmenting, or dissolving. Yet, it never actually vanished. Revisiting the rising challenges to the Syrian state since 2011 \u2013 from internal collapse through external fragmentation to its looming dissolution by the \u2018Islamic State\u2019 \u2013 provides a rare opportunity to investigate the re-enactment of both statehood and international order in crisis. Indeed, what distinguishes the challenges posed to Syria, and Iraq, from others in the region and beyond is that their potential dissolution was regarded as a threat not merely to a \u2013 despised \u2013 dictatorial regime, or a particular state, but to the state-based international order itself. Regimes fall and states \u2018collapse\u2019 internally or are replaced by new states, but the international order is fundamentally questioned only where the territorially delineated state form is contested by an alternative. The article argues that the Syrian state survived not simply due to its legal sovereignty or foreign regime support, but also because states that backed the rebellion, fearing the vanishing of the Syrian nation-state in a transnational jihadist \u2018caliphate\u2019, came to prefer its persistence under Assad. The re-enactment of states and of the international order are thus ultimately linked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n