- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the English Edition
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- The Development of Kurdish Parties
- 1. The Long Struggle for Autonomy
- 2. Background and Methods of Social Science Research in War
- 3. Kurds, Arabs, Armenians, and Assyrians : Rojava as Part of the Ethnic Diversity of Syria
- 4. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Alevi, and Ezidi: Religious Pluralism in Rojava
- 5. Kurdistan: Country without a State or Country against the State
- 6. Syrian Kurdistan under the French Protectorate
- 7. Kurds in Independent Syria
- 8. In the Crosshairs of Pan-Arabism: From the United Arab Republic to Ba'athism
- 9. Special Census and Statelessness
- 10. The Kurds under Ba'athist Rule
- 11. Between Two Brief Springs: Rojava under Bashar al-Assad
- 12. The Kurdish Party Landscape
- 13. From Revolution to Civil War
- 14. Military Developments since 2012
- 15. Political Economy in the Civil War
- 16. The Kurdish Districts of Aleppo
- 17. The Kurdish Para-State in Rojava
- 18. Voices from Rojava
- 19. Conclusion: Rojava, Quo Vadis?
- Bibliography
- Interviews
- Notes
- Index