Willem van den Berg

Research assistant at the Conflict Research Unit of the Clingendael Institute, based in The Hague (Netherlands). He works on the role of the private sector in conflict-affected areas.

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.
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