THE MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES BOOK PRIZE SPONSORED BY THE BRITISH-KUWAIT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY Dr Björn Brenner, a UN advisor and post-doctoral fellow at the Swedish Defence University, was named Runner Up to the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize, the most…
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…
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…
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…
US president Donald Trump intends to relocate the US embassy in Israel from its current location in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Such a move would mean a shift in current US policy on the political and legal status of Jerusalem.…
In an article for the Journal of the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Björn Brenner analyses the recent Middle East peace initiative by France. Among other things, his analysis concludes: "The French initiative may be using an untested method for…
Relations between Sweden and Israel have continued to deteriorate over the past months. Sweden unilaterally recognised the state of Palestine on 30 October 2014 and diplomatic relations between the two countries have gradually worsened since then. The latest move by…
Watch the interview here: 'Swedish FM links Paris attacks to Palestinian radicalisation', Interview in Ynet News, 18 November 2015. Here are the questions as they were posed in the pre-interview and the answers that were then given: 1. What is…
The past weeks of violent unrest across Israel and the West Bank have taken us by surprise due to their seemingly unorganised and spontaneous nature. How can this new type of Palestinian violent activism be understood and explained? Here are…