@article{Bamber-Zryd:319179,
      recid = {319179},
      author = {Bamber-Zryd, Matthew},
      title = {The state of the Islamic State four papers on the rebel  governance and state-building project of the Islamic State},
      publisher = {Graduate Institute of International and Development  Studies},
      address = {Geneva. 2024},
      number = {PHD_THESIS},
      pages = {XV, 190 pages},
      year = {2024},
      abstract = {On 4 July 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the  establishment of an Islamic caliphate, marking the onset of  an unprecedented period of state-building by the Islamic  State (IS) across Iraq and Syria. At its peak, IS’s state  comprised an area of approximately 100,000 square  kilometres. The group developed a complex apparatus of  governing institutions to manage the lives of the eight  million civilians residing in its territory. Collectively,  this dissertation contains four papers that focus on  under-studied aspects of IS's rebel governance and  state-building efforts, offering insights into the civil  resistance, the rebel governance, and the broader  state-building literature. The first paper challenges  prevailing ahistorical narratives of IS's governance by  introducing a novel framework, the ‘governance cycle’, to  better understand IS's historical and contemporary  governance dynamics. The second paper delves into the  effectiveness of IS's governance, revealing variations in  governance phases at the sub-national level. The third  paper explores the categorisation and roles of employees  within jihadist groups, demonstrating that IS had two  distinct categories of employees who had different roles,  benefits, and levels of agency. Finally, the fourth paper  analyses the strategic narrative which surrounds IS's  state-building project, highlighting its conventional  nature, compared to mainstream state-building narratives.  These papers are based on extensive primary data collection  consisting of 117 interviews with IS members and civilians  who lived in IS-controlled territories and an original  database of more than 1000 documents, published by IS’s  governing institutions.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/319179},
}