ANALYSIS BY BJÖRN BRENNER Following IS/Daesh's ouster from Raqqa, new local conflict lines emerge as different actors begin to manoeuvre aspiring to gain control over the war-torn territory. Summary of analysis: ”One of the key policy analysis questions now is…
PUBLIC DISCUSSION WITH BJÖRN BRENNER On the 17th October, the Swedish National Film Institute will air OMAR (2013) and afterwards host a public discussion with Björn Brenner about its content, led by Hans Brun. The event will take place at…
ARTICLE BY BJÖRN BRENNER Hamas has often been described as the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. This picture fits quite well with what the relationship between these two groups looked like in the 1980s, some thirty years ago. However,…
INTERVIEW WITH BJÖRN BRENNER "The burden of responsibility: Hamas rule in Gaza", TLV1 The Tel Aviv Review, 11 August 2017." In this interview, Dr Björn Brenner discusses his new book GAZA UNDER HAMAS (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017) and personal impressions…
SEMINARS WITH BJÖRN BRENNER during Sweden's annual democracy week Almedalen 2017. This year, Björn Brenner focused on the social situation in Jordan and criticised the country's poor educational system. Brenner warned that the Jordanian youth lack sufficient tools to be…
OPED IN HAARETZ BY BJÖRN BRENNER Today's Haaretz features an article by Björn Brenner about European perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the EU's unwillingness to revise its policy goal of a two-state solution: "Is Europe more desperate for a…
POLICY ANALYSIS BY BJÖRN BRENNER Following Donald Trump's first trip abroad as president, notably to Saudi Arabia and Israel, contours are beginning to appear of a new US strategy in the Middle East. This strategy appears to stand on three…
REFEREED ARTICLE IN STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT BY BJÖRN BRENNER 'The Deradicalisation of Islamists by Islamists: Hamas's kid-glove approach to Salafi-Jihadists in the Gaza Strip 2010-2015', Strategic Assessment, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2017. Abstract The Hamas administration in Gaza first set out…
OPED IN HAARETZ BY BJÖRN BRENNER Summary: After several years of internal deliberations, hundreds of thousands of Hamas members have agreed on substantial revisions to their organisation's 30-year-old founding document. The new text excludes anti-Semitic language and embraces a Palestinian…
NEW RELEASE FROM I.B.TAURIS PUBLISHERS Björn Brenner, GAZA UNDER HAMAS: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance (2017) This book reveals what happens behind the scenes inside the torn coastal territory, in Gaza under Hamas. GAZA UNDER HAMAS - REVIEWS…
