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As the Khashoggi affair will likely show, accountability is never a problem for Arab leaders.
By integrating pro-regime armed groups into state structures, the Assad regime has created a hybrid military order.
There were four lessons from the Istanbul Summit on Syria, one of which is that Bashar al-Assad has won.
Khashoggi’s murder has elicited that rarest of reactions in contemporary U.S. politics: bipartisan consensus.
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
Efforts to reconstitute and rebuild state security institutions in post-conflict states will require not just technical and organizational fixes, but will hinge upon a range of sweeping steps and reforms with generational scope.
The reconfiguration of power relations in Yemen has resulted in a hybridized military.
Today Iraq looks like a plurality of competing but fluid centers of power linked to domestic and/or external patrons.
The integration of foreign and informal forces in Syria makes success in restoring pre-2011 unified security sector governance improbable.
The determination that both the LAF and Hezbollah wish to play a larger role shaping Lebanese national security politics suggests that there may not be enough room for two preeminent military institutions in post-war Lebanon.