Armed Organizations and Political Elites in Civil Wars: Pathways to Power in Syria and Iraq

This book analyses under what conditions, and with what developmental effects, armed organizations shift their ’coercive profile’ during civil wars, with a focus on the recent conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

Erwin van Veen is a senior research fellow and lead of the Middle East research group at the Conflict Research Unit of the Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands.