This post is based on a paper of the same name delivered as part of the Regional Security Research (RSRC) panel titled ‘After the Arab Spring: Regime Security in the Arabian Gulf’, on September 27, 2017. Dr. AMIR M. KAMEL Iran’s presence and involvement in the Gulf continues to impact security in the region. In… Read More Iran and (in)security in the Gulf
By Dr Andreas Krieg This piece is a peek into my new book project that I am pursuing together with my colleague Dr Jean Marc Rickli. The book is called Surrogate Warfare – A Mode of War for the 21st Century and conceptually explores the dynamics of externalizing the burden of warfare to surrogates. The Arab… Read More Surrogate War and the Illusion of State-Centrism
Dr Amir M Kamel This post is the first of a three-part series based on a panel titled ‘Middle Eastern Pragmatism and the Islamic State’ which took place at the Tenth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies 22-24 September 2016 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The Islamic… Read More Iran’s DAISH Policy: Pragmatic as ever
Dr. Andrew R. Hom In late June 2016 the ESRC-funded Moral Victories project and KCL’s Department of Defence Studies convened a workshop, entitled ‘Degrade and Destroy: Winning the War against Daesh?‘, which brought together leading experts from the academic, military, policy, and NGO communities to consider the problem of confronting DAESH (ISIS) – both in terms… Read More Degrade and Destroy: Winning the War against DAESH
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