These contributions by @renadmansour.bsky.social @emadbadi.bsky.social @tbdwi.bsky.social Tim Eaton, Inna Rudolf, Salam Said and myself formed inputs for a workshop to kick off our project.

Next step is to leverage these empirical insights for comparative analysis & theory development. Stay tuned!

Syria looking like a rare rebel seizure of central power in Asia/ Middle East; has been very uncommon. S Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia 1975, AFG 1996,2021. Iran 1979 a revolution but could include. Plenty of coups (Syria, Iraq, Pak., Thai) and invasions (Iraq, Camb) but seizure from within quite unusual.

Interested in Security Sector Reform under a State-Society Perspective? Our Cambridge Element is free to download until 11th December
With Sabine Kurtenbach: Building Pathways to Peace. State–Society Relations and Security Sector Reform
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Century International colleague Sajad Jiyad explains how corruption works in Iraq and argues it should be understood as intrinsic and central to the country's political order, not something unfortunate but incidental: eprints.lse.ac.uk/120883/