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13th February 2025

How migrant smuggling has fuelled conflict in Libya

Tim Eaton, Lubna Yousef
A pervasive conflict economy has developed in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. Migrant smuggling and human trafficking became a key vecto...
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North Africa Middle East and North Africa Libya Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Organised Crime Migration Borderlands

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31st January 2025

Lebanon’s October Revolution (al-thawra 17 tishrīn) and the ...

Craig Larkin
When public protests erupted onto Lebanese streets in October 2019, they were neither unexpected nor without recent precedent. This book chapter exami...
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Middle East and North Africa Lebanon Violent and Peaceful Behaviour

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31st January 2025

How to engage with Syria’s new rulers 

Nafees Hamid, Nils Mallock, Rahaf Aldoughli, Broderick McDonald
After the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, the country’s interim government faces the task of rebuilding the country. Now, foreign countries are...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Governance Conflict Dynamics

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23rd December 2024

Influence abroad: Saudi Arabia replaces Salafism in its soft...

Hesham Alghannam
The kingdom aims to foster warmer international relationships by moving away from a religious approach that earned the royal family legitimacy; howeve...
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Middle East and North Africa Middle East Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Violent Extremism Governance

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23rd December 2024

Saudi-Emirati divergences lead Hadhramawt to a crossroad

Ibrahim Jalal
Competition between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi over influence in the Yemeni governorate could lead to conflict between the two sides or their proxies, which...
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Yemen Middle East and North Africa Middle East Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

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19th December 2024

Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon: Reopening Lebanon’s sectari...

Mohamad El Kari
This XCEPT article examining the recent conflict through the lens of interactions between displaced families from Hezbollah-linked regions and their h...
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Middle East and North Africa Middle East Lebanon Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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19th December 2024

The war on Gaza and Iraq’s resistance state

Inna Rudolf
A brief overview of the main Shi‘a Islamist actors involved in Axis of Resistance politics in Iraq, examining their embeddedness within the state appa...
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Middle East and North Africa Conflict Dynamics

Publication

11th December 2024

The Elephant in the Room: How Saudi Arabia’s Multiple Roles ...

Júlia Palik
This case study examines the regionalized nature of the conflict in Yemen impacted on mediation efforts and strategies between 2011 and 2023.
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Middle East and North Africa Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

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11th December 2024

The Madrid Conference and the Washington Process (1991–1993)...

Jørgen Jensehaugen
The Madrid Peace Conference of 1991 aimed to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict. This paper examines the establishment of the Madrid/Washington process...
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Middle East and North Africa Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

Podcast

6th December 2024

In conversation with Mirza Dinnayi: 10th anniversary of the ...

Inna Rudolf, Mirza Dinnayi
King’s College London’s War Studies podcast reflects on the 2014 genocide against the Yezidis and the situation today.
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Middle East and North Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Response

Publication

21st November 2024

Borders of Conflict: Navigating Policy in a Transnational Ec...

Renad Mansour
This series of essays considers the transnational dynamics of authority and violence to explain how an armed conflict in one locality exists in a tran...
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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21st November 2024

How supply chains fuel transnational conflict in the Middle ...

Renad Mansour, Hayder Al-Shakeri,
Transnational conflict in the Middle East is fuelled by both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ trade. Mapping these cross-border dynamics can help understand and ...
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Yemen Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Lebanon Iraq Iran Conflict Response Borderlands

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19th November 2024

Operation Aspides, or the peril of low expectations in Yemen

Ibrahim Jalal
For the foreseeable future, maritime trade through the Red Sea will remain a hostage to Ansar Allah and Iran. They will likely use this to secure conc...
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Yemen Middle East and North Africa Middle East Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Conflict Dynamics

Research report

18th November 2024

Captagon in Iraq and Jordan: understanding the problem and e...

Christopher Sims, Antonio Ruiz, Nicholas Krohley
This paper examines how Iraq and Jordan are addressing the Captagon trade within their borders, outlines current gaps in the literature on Captagon, a...
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Organised Crime Conflict Economies

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30th October 2024

The end of the ‘revolution’ (al-thawra) but not revolutionar...

Rahaf Aldoughli,
This XCEPT article investigates what drives individuals to join and remain loyal to armed groups amidst the chaos of the Syrian wars by focusing on th...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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