• Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East: A Literature Review 

      Kårtveit, Bård; Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen (CMI Working Paper WP 2014:5, Working paper, 2014-07-01)
      In the 1950s and 1960s, a wave of military coups in the Middle East triggered extensive research on the role of military forces throughout the region. Since the early 1980s however, civil-military relations in the Middle ...
    • CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe 

      Knudsen, Are John; Berg, Kjersti G. (Book, 2023-02-01)
      Beginning in 2012, the civil war in Syria displaced millions within the country and as refugees to neighbouring states. Three years later, more than a million had reached Europe, before the EU and member states closed ranks ...
    • Hamas and the Arab Spring: Introduction 

      Løvlie, Frode; Knudsen, Are John (Middle East Policy vol. 20 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-01)
      The Arab Spring is a critical juncture for examining Hamas, a movement created in the context of a popular revolt (against Israeli occupation) similar to those that have reverberated throughout the Middle East. Since the ...
    • In search of a Palestinian leadership 

      Løvlie, Frode; Ezbidi, Basem (CMI Brief vol. 10 no. 6, Report, 2011-09-06)
      This brief argues that even a successful reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah will fall short of providing the leadership the Palestinians need. Their domestic legitimacy are simply too frayed. Instead it argues that the ...
    • ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid!’ Political Economy Analysis and Political Corruption Studies 

      Amundsen, Inge (Others, 2019-01-01)
      Presentation for ANU Ph.D.-students, in connection with the conference: Governance, Security, and Asymmetrical Warfare in Central Asia and the Middle East .
    • Palestinian Women: Is there a Unitary Conception of Rights? 

      Kjøstvedt, Hilde (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)
      Palestinian women’s participation in the resistance against the Israeli occupation, most notably during the first Intifada (1987-93), has been characterised as broad and active, particularly at grass roots level. This ...
    • Political Corruption in the Middle East. Authoritarianism and Wasta in a Global Perspective 

      Amundsen, Inge (Conference object, 2019-01-01)
      Presentation at the conference Governance, Security, and Asymmetrical Warfare in Central Asia and the Middle East , University of Australia, Canberra.
    • Political Islam in the Middle East 

      Knudsen, Are (Research report, Research report, 2003)
      This report provides an overview of the political Islam in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the Islamic resurgence in the Levant (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). Following an introduction ...
    • Precarious peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005 

      Knudsen, Are (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)
      This paper analyses Lebanon’s post-war period (1990–2005) from the perspective of peacebuilding and argues that the country’s precarious attempts at implementing a peacebuilding agenda must be sought internally in the ...
    • Research guide: Refugee settlement and encampment in the Middle East and North Aftica, 1860-1940s 

      Ibrahim, Baher (Others, 2021-01-01)
      The following blog post was published on Refugee History in september 2021. See attached PDF Research guide. We’ve just added a research guide to refugee settlement and encampment in the Middle East and North Africa ...
    • Syrian Self-settlement in Lebanon’s ‘Arrival Cities’: Refugee Livelihoods in Tripoli, Beirut, and Tyre 

      Forster, Robert; Knudsen, Are J. (Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East, Chapter, 2024-03-01)
      Taking arrival cities as their point of departure, Robert Forster and Are John Knudsen compare settlement choices and outcomes for Syrian refugees living in the poorest neighbourhoods in Beirut, Tripoli and Tyre. The latter ...
    • The Law, the Loss and the Lives of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 

      Knudsen, Are (CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)
      Lebanon has been a reluctant host to Palestinian refugees since 1948. A mainstay of Lebanese policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugees has been preventing their permanent integration and settlement in the country. The ...
    • UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward 

      Berg, Kjersti G.; Jensehaugen, Jørgen; Tiltnes, Åge A. (CMI Report R 2022:04, Research report, 2022-09-01)
      Summary This commissioned report has two main aims: First, providing a description of what UNRWA is, including its history, mandate and services, with particular emphasis on the recent funding deficit and how that has ...
    • البحث عن قيادة فلسطينية 

      Løvlie, Frode; Ezbidi, Basem (CMI Brief vol. 10 no. 6, Report, 2011-12-21)
      تزعم هذه الورقة أنه حتى لو تم تحقيق مصالح ناجحة بين حركتي فتح وحماس، فإن ذلك لن يوفر للفلسطينيين القيادة التي يحتاجونها، حيث أن شرعيتهم الداخلية قد تآكلت جداً. وبدلاً من ذلك تزعم هذه الورقة كذلك أن الأمل في قيادة فلسطينية ...