Erwin van Veen

Senior research fellow for the Conflict Research Unit of the Clingendael Institute, based in The Hague (Netherlands). He focuses on the links between political order and the organization of security in fragile states.

Five Schemes to Generate Income in the Arab World and Worsen the Crisis Erwin van Veen , Willem van den Berg · April 2018 States in the MENA region suffer from fragmentation and authoritarianism but with Western help, they are surprisingly capable of innovative revenue generation. A tongue-in-cheek assessment of five methods.
For a brief moment it looked like the revolutions of the Arab Spring could break (...)