Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria - Softcover

Sosnowski, Marika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009347241 ISBN 13: 9781009347242

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Since 2012, ceasefires have been used in Syria to halt violence and facilitate peace agreements. However, in this book, Marika Sosnowski argues that a ceasefire is rarely ever just a 'cease fire'. Instead, she demonstrates that ceasefires are not only military tactics but are also tools of wartime order and statebuilding. Bringing together rare primary documents and first-hand interviews with over eighty Syrians and other experts, Sosnowski offers original insights into the most critical conflict of our time, the Syrian civil war. From rebel governance to citizen and property rights, humanitarian access to economic networks, ceasefires have a range of heretofore underexamined impacts. Using the most prominent ceasefires of the war as case studies, Sosnowski demonstrates the diverse consequences of ceasefires and provides a fuller, more nuanced portrait of their role in conflict resolution.

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About the Author

Marika Sosnowski is an Australian lawyer, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School and Research Associate with the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. Her primary research interests are in the fields of critical security studies, local/rebel governance and legal systems. Her geographical area of specialisation is the Middle East, particularly Syria. Her PhD dissertation was awarded the 2020 Syrian Studies Association Dissertation Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• ISBN 10: 1009347241
• ISBN 13: 9781009347242
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 215