Will Todman
Chief of Staff, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department, and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Chief of Staff @CSISGeopolitics and senior fellow @CSISMidEast. Mainly conflict, governance, and displacement in the MENA region. All views my own.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
csis.org | Will Todman
Lebanon’s parliament elected General Joseph Aoun as president on January 9, 2025, ending a two-year stalemate. Parliament had failed to elect a president 12 times following the end of the previous president’s term in October 2022. Aoun has served as the commander of the Lebanese army since March 2017. Q1: Why did this happen now? A1: Aoun’s election is a manifestation of Hezbollah’s weakness.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
csis.org | Will Todman
Just one day after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, Austria announced plans to deport Syrians back to Syria. A dozen European countries also announced that they had stopped processing Syrians’ asylum claims. This is a huge mistake. Many European states have wanted to send Syrians back to their home country for a long time. Before Assad’s fall, several states had hardened their stance on refugee returns, pushing for Syrians to return even without political reforms.
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Mar 27, 2024 |
csis.org | Will Todman
The State of Governance and Rule of Law in Uganda
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Jan 22, 2024 |
csis.org | Thibault Denamiel |Matthew Schleich |William Reinsch |Will Todman
IntroductionMaritime shipping, the backbone of international commerce, is under stress resulting from several crises in different chokepoints across the globe. Chief among them is instability caused by the Houthi attacks on ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, an obligatory route for vessels transiting the Suez Canal.
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Sep 21, 2023 |
csis.org | Will Todman
The Middle East is on the cusp of a transformation. The region’s economies, environment, politics, and international relations are all shifting simultaneously. While the looming energy transition is the most obvious driver, a climate transition is also underway. These two combine with other factors to create an impending labor transition, and the three will mix with demographics and global communications technologies to create profound social transitions.
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"Non-interventionists are really ascendant in this administration" I told the @nationaljournal. The U.S.-Gulf relationship has "shifted towards a geo-economic relationship now."
The president's trip to the Middle East showed that his go-along, get-along version of noninterventionism is ascendant—especially if there's money to be made. @georgecondon reports (unlocked): https://t.co/8JkwAzh9lL https://t.co/gr3WZJOoHm
RT @CSISMidEast: Speaking with @CBSNews, @WillTodman breaks down the key takeaways from President Trump's visit to the Middle East—from his…
RT @CSIS: NEWS | @CSISMidEast expert @WillTodman joined CBS to discuss President Trump's trip to the Middle East and his embrace of Syria's…