Reinoud Leenders's guest appearances

Reinoud Leenders

POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast

POMEPS Conversations

Richardson Institute

Toby Matthiesen

Nathan Brown

Sean Yom

Wendy Pearlman

Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Justin Gengler

Pete Moore

Steffen Hertog

Michael Wahid Hanna

Thanassis Cambanis

Steven Brooke

Rory McCarthy

Greg Gause

Kristin Fabbe

Michaelle Browers

OwlTail

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Reinoud Leenders, Reader in International Relations with a focus on the Middle East at King's College London. Reinoud is the author of Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State Building in Post-War Lebanon (Cornell University Press 2012) and a number of other articles relating to corruption, political economy and authoritarianism. On this episode, Simon and Reinoud talk about corruption, links with sectarianism, Syria, and authoritarianism across the Middle East. Lots to reflect!

SEPADPod with Reinoud Leenders

On this week's POMEPS podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Reinoud Leenders about the origins of the Syrian conflict. Leenders is a reader in the Department of War Studies at King's College London."In the beginning, it was a question of who would move first, and where." Leenders says. "Why it happened in certain places and not others, it is because of local characteristics." Aleppo, Leenders says, held back. "It was a very conservative, middle class [place] that felt it was too much to get involved and put a stop on mobilization initially."

On this week's POMEPS podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Reinoud Leenders about the origins of the Syrian conflict. Leenders is a reader in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. "In the beginning, it was a question of who would move first, and where." Leenders says. "Why it happened in certain places and not others, it is because of local characteristics." Aleppo, Leenders says, held back. "It was a very conservative, middle class [place] that felt it was too much to get involved and put a stop on mobilization initially."

(Audio Only) Conversation 72 with Reinoud Leenders

On this week's POMEPS podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Reinoud Leenders about the origins of the Syrian conflict. Leenders is a reader in the Department of War Studies at King's College London."In the beginning, it was a question of who would move first, and where." Leenders says. "Why it happened in certain places and not others, it is because of local characteristics." Aleppo, Leenders says, held back. "It was a very conservative, middle class [place] that felt it was too much to get involved and put a stop on mobilization initially.""In hindsight, lots of people have said it was a mistake of the [Syrian] regime to have applied such vast levels of repression," Leenders said. "But I think that, beyond moral considerations, I don't think the repression as such was a mistake...The brutality of the regime touched on some really sensitive registers, include dignity and honor of women." Even as Leenders's research focuses on the parsing out the conflict through the lens of two narratives, "We are five years down the road, and every day the conflict goes on, I get more questions than answers."

On this week's POMEPS podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Reinoud Leenders about the origins of the Syrian conflict. Leenders is a reader in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. "In the beginning, it was a question of who would move first, and where." Leenders says. "Why it happened in certain places and not others, it is because of local characteristics." Aleppo, Leenders says, held back. "It was a very conservative, middle class [place] that felt it was too much to get involved and put a stop on mobilization initially." "In hindsight, lots of people have said it was a mistake of the [Syrian] regime to have applied such vast levels of repression," Leenders said. "But I think that, beyond moral considerations, I don't think the repression as such was a mistake...The brutality of the regime touched on some really sensitive registers, include dignity and honor of women." Even as Leenders's research focuses on the parsing out the conflict through the lens of two narratives, "We are five years down the road, and every day the conflict goes on, I get more questions than answers."

The Origins of Syria’s Crisis: A Conversation with Reinoud Leenders (S. 5, Ep. 4)