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I wrote a book! And even better: @tcambanis, @mwhanna1, @desfandiary, @simaghaddar, and @renadmansour also wrote that book—all of us together. Don't miss!
Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East
https://www.brookings.edu/book/hybrid-actors …pic.twitter.com/unmVs1nPxQ
For more than a year, we've been co-writing this new volume on Middle Eastern hybrid actors—highly evolved armed groups that are neither mere non-state actors nor regular government entities, often working within but also transcending, co-opting, and subverting recognized states.
The book contains both theory and argument, and also a number of detailed case studies of major armed groups in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon that lay out the particularities of hybrid and, for contrast, non-hybrid or abortive hybrid actors. What unites them and what sets them apart?
So you'll be reading about Lebanon's Hezbollah and Amal, the Syrian National Defense Forces, the Islamic State, and the Iraqi Sahwa, Peshmerga, and Hashd militias. Don't miss if you're interested in the Middle East, militias, and fragile states. Pre-order:https://www.brookings.edu/book/hybrid-actors…
Really awesome!We’re working on a book w a slightly different but comparable angle. Will be great 2learn from you.
Hope you checked this out on coercive organizations as tools 4political (dis)order in the #Levant: https://bit.ly/2K15BDY
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