Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East

by Thanassis Cambanis, Michael Wahid Hanna, Renad Mansour, et al.

Influential armed groups continue to confound policymakers, diplomats, and analysts decades after their transformational arrival on the scene in the Middle East and North Africa. The most effective of these militias can most usefully be understood as hybrid actors, which simultaneously work through, with, and against the state.

This joint report from The Century Foundation identifies the factors that make some hybrid actors persistent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870785591
• ISBN13: 9780870785597
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Century Foundation Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"