Aron Lund

@aronlund

I write about the Middle East, mostly for the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, IRIN News, and The Century Foundation.

aron.lund.syria@gmail.com
Joined December 2011
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    May 22

    Can money win where guns lost? That's what the United States and its allies hope for in Syria, but critics say tying reconstruction aid to political change won’t work and will hurt civilians. New for :

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    10 hours ago

    After Muqtada Al-Sadr's Surprise Win, Iraq's Political Leaders Try To Form Government: My story

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  3. 6 hours ago

    After years of screaming insults at the United States and spitting in the general direction of NATO, Erdogan is baffled to find that some American politicians no longer think it is unproblematic to sell top-modern military tech to Turkey. :

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  4. 7 hours ago

    The British Syrian Society issues a wish-list of administrative reforms—some vague and some specific. That the BSS is close to the government is exactly why it shouldn't be dismissed: these are way more likely to be implemented than anything out of Geneva.

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  5. 7 hours ago

    After much ado, the Syrian government has issued its list of nominees to the constitutional committee birthed by Sochi, writes Silva Razzouq.

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    May 24

    It’s Muqtada time.

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  7. 8 hours ago

    For some hard numbers on Moscow's humanitarian generosity: Russia provided about one tenth of one percent of total aid funding for Syria last year. Given that IKEA gave half of that, you could just as well plan for a furniture company-based reconstruction.

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  8. 8 hours ago

    Syrian Economy Minister Samer Khalil says his government may need in excess of $400bn, and that he expects Russia to provide most of what they can't fund internally. Having been asked to review this plan for signs of realism, I give it 0 points out of 100.

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  9. 8 hours ago

    Lawfare? Syrian development plan alarms refugees and host nations – on the Law 10 controversies.

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    May 24

    Seven years of combat, mass displacement, population swaps, laws on property & return -- all of that has ripped apart & restitched 's demographic map. 's story, by & me:

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    May 18

    Last weekend's reveal a general mood of disillusionment across the country. My latest piece looks at why the vote was an indictment of the post-2003 elite in Baghdad.

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  12. May 19

    In a comment based on projected election results, which differed slightly from the official ones, looks at some of the possible combinations that could take form in parliament to pick Iraq's new (or, as the case may be, old) prime minister.

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  13. May 19

    Har skrivit lite i om Moqtada al-Sadrs valseger i Irak.

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  14. May 19

    Iraqi election results • Saeroun (Sadr) 54 • Fateh (Ameri) 47 • Nasr (Abadi) 42 • KDP (Barzani) 25 • SoL (Maliki) 25 • Wataniya (Allawi) 21 • Hikma (Hakim) 19 • PUK (Talabani/Kosrat) 18 • Qarar (Nujeifi) 14 • Others, 1-6 each: 55 • Minorities: 9

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  15. May 18

    Assad meets Putin, agrees to start cooperating with the UN-led constitutional committee that was agreed at the Sochi congress. The government had stalled for months by refusing to send its list of delegates, infuriating de Mistura.

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  16. May 18

    How do you provide polio vaccines to 10 million kids when Islamist rebels roam 70% of the country and locals think it might be banned in Islam? One way is to equip your team with a Mobile Mullah. Read on the hard life of Afghan health workers:

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    May 17
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    to be clear, what i wrote is that Iran doesn't have much popular support. i didn't discuss the extent of iran's influence.

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  18. May 17

    Among the lessons drawn by from the Iraqi election: Iran doesn't have as much influence as popularly thought, many Iraqis support cross-sectarian coalitions, there is less attraction to strongmen, and voters are losing faith in the whole sad mess.

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  19. May 17

    Benghazi's displaced: a litmus test for Libya. meets people who fled west to Tripoli and now can't go back, including Islamist opponents of Khalifa Heftar.

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  20. May 16

    Iraq's Top 10 Potential Prime Ministers, by .

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