Surviving War in Syria, Arab Spring at 10, Pu...

On this week's episode of the podcast, Killian Clarke of Georgetown University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed. Clarke explains both why counterrevolutions emerge and when they are likely to succeed. He forwar ...  Show more

On this week's episode of the podcast, Steven Monroe of the National University of Singapore joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World. Monroe uses the case of Jordan to discuss the broader failures of econo ...  Show more

This conversation is a rerun of a 2021 episode with Professor Rashid Khalidi author of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017".  We are rerunning this episode since our team is on a break until after th ...

In the second episode with Omar Dahi, he continues the discussion on the impact and dynamics of conflict economies within a broad framework that includes the global, regional and local actors in Syria. He also highlights the continuation of the conflict foundations and tools d ...

In this week’s episode, we’re bringing you a special feature with Dr Lola Frost speaking about the value of studying art in war studies. According to her, studying art is important in war studies because art can convey knowledge in a way that is not accessible to the social scien ...  Show more

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions.  The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syria ...  Show more