Abdullah al-Jabassini
Adjunct Professor
About
Abdullah al-Jabassini is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe and is a CIVICA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Central European University in Vienna. He is a former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Professor al-Jabassini holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury. He is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC and an Associate Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies in Bonn.
al-Jabassini's primary expertise lies in international relations, political violence and civil war, wartime social order, third-party intervention in civil conflicts, authoritarian conflict management, peacebuilding and reconciliation processes, rebel-military integration, and local governance in areas of limited statehood, with a deep focus on Syria and the Middle East.
al-Jabassini's primary expertise lies in international relations, political violence and civil war, wartime social order, third-party intervention in civil conflicts, authoritarian conflict management, peacebuilding and reconciliation processes, rebel-military integration, and local governance in areas of limited statehood, with a deep focus on Syria and the Middle East.
- Tribalocracy: Wartime Social Order in Tribal Regions, in International Studies Quarterly 68:4 (2024)
- From Rebel Leader to Post-war Intermediaries , in Small Wars & Insurgencies 35:4 (2024)
- (Re)ordering the Mediterranean: The evolution of security assistance as an international practice, S. Tholens and A. Al-Jabassini, in Mediterranean Politics (online March 9, 2023)
- The Making of Rivals and Strange Bedfellows: Patterns of Turkish and Russian Security Assistance in the Syrian and Libyan Civil Wars , with E. Badi, in Journal of Mediterranean Politics 29:4 (2023)
- The Weaponization of Service Delivery in Wartime and Post-war Daraa al-Balad , in Journal of Genocide Research 25:1 (2021)
- Civil Resistance to Military Conscription in Kurdish Areas of Northern Syria: The Untold Story , in Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 12:3 (2017)