Dr Ahmad Partaw

Albany State University

Bio

Dr. Partaw is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Albany State University. His research interests lie at intersection of Comparative Politics and IR, specializing in security studies, democratization, legitimacy and legitimation processes peace and conflict studies. Dr. Partaw research has appeared in the ranked Journals of Political Science and International Relations Dr. Partaw serves as a fellow at Center for Eastern and Central European Russian and Eurasian Studies at Troy University.

Domestic and International Legitimacy after War: Post Conflict Governance in Syria and Afghanistan

Abstract

This article develops a two-level framework that distinguishes between domestic and international sources of legitimacy and applies it to Islamist governance in Afghanistan and Syria. Drawing on original elite interviews and political speeches, the paper examine the Taliban government in Afghanistan as the core case and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a secondary case that has emerged as the de facto authority in Syria’s post-Assad transitional order.