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Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria

Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria

Holmes, Amy Austin

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 019762104X
ISBN13: 9780197621042
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 12 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A remarkable examination of an understudied aspect of the Syrian conflict that traces the genealogy of one of the most radical social experiments in self-governance of our time.

Syrian Kurds and their Arab and Christian allies have embarked on one of the most radical experiments in self-governance of our time. In defiance of the Assad regime, the Islamic State, and regional autocrats, this unlikely coalition created a statelet to govern their semi-autonomous region. In Statelet of Survivors, Amy Austin Holmes charts the movement from its origins to what it has become today. Drawing from seven years of research trips to northern and eastern Syria, Holmes traces the genealogy of this social experiment to the Republic of Mount Ararat in Turkey, where a self-governing entity was proclaimed in 1927 based on solidarity between Kurds and Armenian genocide survivors. Founded by survivors of modern-day atrocities, the Autonomous Administration does more to empower women and minorities than any other region of Syria. Holmes analyzes its military and police forces, schools, the judicial system, the economic model it has implemented, and strategy of empowering women who were once enslaved by ISIS. An in-depth examination of the region Kurds call Rojava, this book tells the remarkable story of the people who both triumphed over ISIS and created a model of decentralized governance in Syria that could eventually be expanded if Assad were to ever fall.

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