Search the XCEPT
content database.

Conflict Economies

Blog

26th March 2024
As the influence of the Assad regime and Russia declines, Iran is emerging as the main actor, which could provoke a major Israeli intervention.

Blog

22nd March 2024
A forthcoming Carnegie paper will argue that to understand Syria’s future, we will have to focus on the country’s peripheries.

Article

21st March 2024
The Syrian regime has struggled to govern Syria’s south, while the Ukraine war has weakened Russia’s influence, making both more reliant on Tehran and...

Podcast

21st November 2023
This podcast from XCEPT partner the Rift Valley Institute unpicks the intricate ties that bind roadblocks, checkpoints, and the political economy of c...

Research report

31st October 2023
Checkpoints have implications for different forms of trade that exist in Jubaland state and between Jubaland and Kenya. This report explores the polit...

Blog

1st August 2023
By monitoring corrupt cross-border trading, international organizations can begin to understand the performance of Afghanistan’s economy.

Briefing paper

31st May 2023
This paper examines Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and the money-making schemes of some of its commanders.

Blog

19th April 2023
The supply chain of a seemingly innocuous cash crop – sesame – has intersected with transnational conflict dynamics, exacerbating tensions between Eth...

Podcast

3rd April 2023
This episode examines the violence and harm caused by these illicit practices, and the international responses to them as part of an XCEPT project min...

Podcast

31st March 2023
Find out more about the impact of supply chains and powerful conflict actors on people’s livelihoods in this Twitter Space recording.

Podcast

31st March 2023
In this Twitter Space, join Senior Research Fellow, Tim Eaton and Project Manager, Leah de Haan for a deep dive into the interaction of conflict dynam...

Article

27th March 2023
Logging has surged amid the post-coup conflict, with sanctions pushing smugglers to open new routes to India, while activists and locals accuse both t...

Podcast

23rd January 2023
In this podcast The Asia Foundation, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, the Rift Valley Institute, and their local research partners dis...

Article

30th November 2022
A system involving doctors, pharmacists, political parties, armed groups, and businesspeople fuels corruption and conflict in a medicine supply chain ...

KEEP CONNECTED

Sign up to the XCEPT newsletter

Newsletter

"*" indicates required fields

*
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.