Authors

Samer Abboud

Samer Abboud is Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University. He is currently co-coordinating (with Omar Dahi) the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies Collective, a working group of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences.


ARTICLES BY Samer Abboud

  • The Reordering of the Syrian Political Economy

    The Reordering of the Syrian Political Economy

    The Syrian post-war order is not being shaped by a liberal peace imposed from the outside by multilateral powers, nor a negotiated peace that emerged from within the country through negotiations between various factions. Instead, what is emerging in Syria—drawing from the work of David Lewis—is ..

  • Samer N. Abboud, Syria (New Texts Out Now)

    Samer N. Abboud, Syria (New Texts Out Now)

    The original impetus for writing this book came in late 2013. Serendipitously, Louise Knight at Polity contacted me around that time to write something about the Syrian conflict, and by 2015, the first edition of the book came out. In that edition, my analysis was mo..

  • Capital Flight and the Consequences of the War Economy

    Capital Flight and the Consequences of the War Economy

    As the Syrian conflict enters its second year, it is obvious that the war economy is becoming structurally entrenched and can no longer be considered merely a temporary episode. This entrenchment demands immediate analysis in o..