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Aron Lund
Guest Researcher
Aron Lund
Aron Lund was a Guest Researcher at SIPRI. He is a Stockholm-based writer and researcher focusing on Middle Eastern and North African politics, a fellow with The Century Foundation of New York, and with the Centre for Syrian Studies of St. Andrew’s University. He was formerly a nonresident associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an associate of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He holds an M.A. from the Oriental Studies Program of Uppsala University and has studied Arabic in Damascus, Algiers, Amman, and Cairo.
He has published widely on the Middle East-North Africa region in Swedish and English, including three books about Syria. He is a regular columnist for The New Humanitarian and also writes for Expressen, Upsala Nya Tidning, and Eskilstuna-Kuriren.
Follow Aron on Twitter at @aronlund.
Subject expertise
Syrian Conflict; War and Insurgency; Arab Politics; Islamist Movements; Salafi-Jihadism
Regional expertise
Middle East and North Africa
Languages
Swedish, English, Arabic
Education
Master’s Degree, Oriental Studies Program, Uppsala University, Sweden
External publications
- Cambanis, T., Lund, A. et al., Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East, The Century Foundation (2019)
- Lund, A., From Cold War to Civil War: 75 Years of Russian-Syrian Relations, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (2019)
- Lund, A., Russia in the Middle East, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (2019)
- Lund, A., Syria’s Civil War: Government Victory or Frozen Conflict?, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), (2018)
- Lund, A., The Factory: A Glimpse into Syria’s War Economy, The Century Foundation (2018)
- Lund, A., Into the Tunnels: The Rise and Fall of a Syrian Rebel Enclave, in Thanassis Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna (eds.), 'Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings: Experiments in an Era of Resurgent Authoritarianism', The Century Foundation (2017)
- Lund, A., Chasing Ghosts: The Shabiha Phenomenon, in Michael Kerr and Craig Larkin (eds.), ‘The Alawis of Syria: War, Faith and Politics in the Levant’, Oxford University Press (2015)
- Lund, A., Syrien brinner: hur revolutionen mot Assad blev ett inbördeskrig, SILC (2014)
- Lund, A., Struggling to Adapt: The Muslim Brotherhood in a New Syria, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2013)
- Lund, A., Divided They Stand: An Overview of Syria’s Political Opposition Factions, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (2012)
- Lund, A., Drömmen om Damaskus, SILC (2010)