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Nicolai Due-Gundersen is former Adviser to the Arab Institute for Security Studies (ACSIS) Amman, Jordan, author of Privatization of Warfare (Intersentia: Cambridge) and has appeared on Al Jazeera, Radio Sputnik and Voice of Islam. He has published over 20 articles covering his time in the Middle East and is a researcher at Kingston University, London and founder of the Understanding MENA conference
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Invited to write an op-ed on the political costs of states using private military companies (PMCs) and how ISIS uses the image of mercenaries to portray Western states as imperialist. Op-ed based on my published book, The Privatization of Warfare
Commissioned by the Conversation to write on Kuwait's stock market scandal of the eighties and how its subsequent depression influences Kuwait's policy toward Qatar and the Gulf. Drew on personal travel experiences, including visiting the Souq al-Manakh where the crash took place.
Invited as political analyst by Al Jazeera to break the Qatar Blockade. My points included Iran's role and Oman as mediator.
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