Examining the common economic factors that continue to drive conflict in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, which have killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions.
In seeking to explain the violence that has struck the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past two decades, analysis to date has focused predominantly on ideological and identity-based factors.
The authors of a new report by Chatham House - Conflict Economies in the Middle East and North Africa - expand the discourse by incorporating approaches adopted from the literature on the political economy of war to examine the conflict economies in these countries.
Their analysis seeks to develop a framework for comparative analysis of conflict economies at the local level in the region, and show that a ‘political economy of war’ framing offers new approaches for reducing competitive and embedded violence.
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