In September 2024, POMEPS convened a workshop, in partnership with Toby Dodge at the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics, focusing on violence originating with regimes and states. Violence, as explored in this collection, takes many forms, is inflicted by many different types of actors, and unfolds from the global level to the highly local. The workshop brought together a dynamic set of scholars across academic generations, methodologies, and empirical research focus to explore the topic. We are delighted to publish papers from that workshop here.
Introduction: State and Regime Violence
Marc Lynch
Toward a Research Agenda on Violence in the Middle East
Steven Heydemann, Smith College
Revisiting Counter-revolutionary Repression and Mass Regime Violence in Syria, 2011-2012
Reinoud Leenders, King’s College London & Ali Aljasem, Utrecht University
State Contraction, Violence, and Regime Collapse: What We Can Learn From Aleppo
Kevin Mazur, King’s College London
Revisiting Governmental Violence in Syria: Horror and the Ontology of Human Dignity
Salwa Ismail, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Jeroen Gunning, Kings College London & Dima Smaira, Kings College London
Recasting Village Leagues: Piecemeal Learning and Clan Control in Palestine
Motasem Abuzaid, University of Oxford
Excess, Ambiguity and Intimacy: the Coloniality of The Emergency in Egypt
Alice Finden, Durham University
Policing and Structural Violence
Francisco Mazzola, Kings College London
Lujain Al-Meligy, Kings College London