Expert Commentary

The Complex State of Play in Eastern Syria

| Aron Lund
Aron Lund
Fellow, The Century Foundation

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The Author is Aron Lund

Aron Lund is a fellow with The Century Foundation. He is a Swedish writer on Middle Eastern affairs and has written extensively on Syrian politics. Between 2013 and 2016, he edited the site, Syria in Crisis, for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was also a nonresident associate in 2016. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Syrian Studies at St. Andrew’s University.

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