Thomas Pierret

@ThomasPierret

Senior Researcher at CNRS-IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence. Tweet in private capacity. RT not endorsement. Header: A l'Est de Damas by Majd al-Dik & Nathalie Bontemps

Aix-en-Provence, France
Joined December 2011
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    Better slogans:

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    23 hours ago

    Isn't a bit of a problematic campaign slogan? The fact the world sat and watched for 8 years and did precisely nothing useful is basically the entire problem. Is the fact we're them get bombed to shit supposed to make the people in Idlib feel better?

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    Jun 27

    Great, all they have to figure out now is how to use this tweet as an air defense system

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    To the civilians of Idlib, Syria: We see you We stand with you…
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    Jun 28

    Today, launches a report on how 's policies co-opt a multibillion dollar humanitarian response. Conclusion? W/out reforming the system in which they operate, aid agencies + investors risk financing the machinery of repression in .

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    Jun 27

    My latest for : examining ’s role in north & attempting to assess its goals. In short - policies are almost entirely run at the provincial level w/ largely absent while economic+social ties only grow deeper.

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    Jun 17

    Reconstruire la ? Pour éviter les pièges et les limites de l'exercice, suggère d'investir dans le secteur agricole qui n'intéresse pas les gens du régime via

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    Jun 24

    New for : What is the endgame in Idlib, Syria's largest remaining rebel enclave?

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    Jun 25

    It's out. More soon.

    Screenshot of 'Migration & Society' journal webpage, showing the following text: Reflections [section heading] 'Refuge' and history: a critical reading of a polemic Benjamin White
    Well, it's taken a while, but my full-length critical reading of 'Refuge' by Alex Betts and Paul Collier is now nearing publication. Out early 2019 in volume 2 of Migration and Society... …
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    Jun 25

    : By sitting back & not spending a cent or losing a drop of blood in , has arguably won its most important strategic victory in 8yrs of conflict in : - It's demonstrated its existential value to *and* . That cannot be stressed enough.

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    Jun 24

    Forgot about this awesome map

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    Jun 24

    I had the honor of being part of this research work "Local Intermediaries in post-2011 Syria" with Foundation. I have worked on the paper titled "What We Can Learn from the Rise of in Syria".

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    Jun 22

    Extensive interviews by colleagues contradict President Trump's version of why he rejected strikes vs Iran. He'd been briefed fully on likely outcome, including death toll. Plan never given final go-ahead, no assets were mobilised.

    "The operation was underway in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said. Planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down, the official said."
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    Jun 20

    The Syrian Elite Forces were meant to be a multi-tribe, moderate Arab armed group that would be instrumental in taking back their home province of Deir ez-Zor from IS, but it didn't end up that way, writes

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    Jun 21

    Whilst everyone focuses on the war that has not yet actually happened in Iran, there are pictures circulating of a little girl literally torn in half by a bomb in Idlib. This has been happening everyday for eight years.

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    Jun 21

    Thought-provoking essay on Syria's "Sunni question," described as a structural contradiction that cannot be resolved by secular ideology unless empowered by strong and equitable institutions. Which, to put it mildly, is not the case now.

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  17. Jun 21

    Gen Jamal Younes' quote confirms (if needed) that any claim of the contrary is BS. I recently wrote about it (in French):

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  18. Jun 21

    Syria's Sunni question isn't just a narrative, it stems from an objective condition: Sunnis are an existential threat for the regime but are at the same time extremely vulnerable to the latter because they exert no control over its coercive apparatus.

    "I always tell Sunnis: 'Bashar is your protector because he's the only one preventing us from doing everything we want'" - Gen. Jamal Younes of the SAA, sitting alongside Mohamed Jaber (2014). 's book is bursting with the most extraordinary quotes.
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    Jun 21

    1. Thread: My take on Iran/Trump, which I may regret in just a few days, but anyway: Trump doesn’t want war with Iran, as today’s NYT & Reuters reports underscore. Trump sees Middle East wars against anyone other than ISIS/AQ as a waste of good American $ on brown people far away

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    Jun 20

    Good article by on how local ties with Gaziantep and Kilis are fuelling economic ties that may drag Ankara in for the long term in Northern Aleppo.

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