Charities and Politics in Bashar Al-Asad’s Syria: The Unravelling of the Old Social Contract

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Syrian Charities as a Scientific Object
1 Syrian Charities in the Twentieth Century
2 Civil Society and Charities in Bashar al-Asad’s Era
3 Collective Action and Funding Strategies of Syrian Charities
4 Getting Committed in Syrian Charitable Associations
5 Local Strategies through a Hirschmanian Lens
6 Participation and Outsourcing: A New Grammar of Public Action in Syria
7 The State as Conceiver, Legislator and Manager
8 The Controlling, Disciplining and Repressive State
Conclusion: The Syrian Uprising or the Unravelling of the Social Contract
Appendix 1 Map of the Population of the Main Syrian Cities
Appendix 2 Summary Table of the Syrian Associations Visited
Appendix 3 Signs and Banners from Syrian Charities
Appendix 4 Brochures from Syrian Charities
Appendix 5 Products of Syrian Charities
Appendix 6 Extracts from the English Version of the Tenth Five-Year Plan of the Syrian Arab Republic (Chapter 6, Section 4)
Appendix 7 Reports and Balance Sheets from Syrian Charities
Appendix 8 Table of Public Finances (2003–9)
Appendix 9 Syrian Press
References
Index