Carnegie Middle East Center
Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.
Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.
Previously Khaddour has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. He has conducted independent research for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, and has worked as an independent journalist for Reuters.
Khaddour’s most recent publications include Eastern Expectations: The Changing Dynamics in Syria’s Tribal Regions (co-authored with Kevin Mazur, February 2017); How Regional Security Concerns Uniquely Constrain Governance in Northeastern Syria (March 2017); Local Wars and the Chance for Decentralized Peace in Syria (March 2017) and Back to What Future? What Remains for Syria’s Displaced People (January 2018).
Because of Covid-19 restrictions, researchers have had to find alternative ways of getting information.
Turkey is altering the nature of Syrian border areas, perhaps presaging more far-reaching steps.
The Makhlouf affair may accelerate a generalized collapse of Syria’s economy and effective control over the country.
Albukamal and Qaim lie on a Syrian-Iraqi boundary that has had regional implications for decades.
The Syrian-Iraqi border has become a point of confrontation among regional and international powers.
By integrating pro-regime armed groups into state structures, the Assad regime has created a hybrid military order.
In the midst of Syria’s wartime devastation, the regime saw a path to its own revival.
Why the conflict against the Islamic State will profoundly reshape the ties and networks in Deir Ezzor.
The Syrian regime devolves some power over reconstruction, mainly to retain it.
Why local tribal calculations will determine what happens outside Syria’s heartland.
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