BSIS PhD student Octavius Pinkard recently published on the incompatibility of Marshall Plan approaches to the Middle East. Published in The Atlantic Post, the article can be found here:
Octavius Pinkard’s research has a focus on Lebanese politics and the regional power and security dynamics of the Levant, with a particular emphasis on sub-state actors such as Hezbollah and the states that support them, including Syria and Iran. His doctoral thesis examines the political mobilization of the Lebanese diaspora in Europe, and analyzes its attempts to both inform and influence European foreign policy towards Lebanon. He is supervised by Dr. Elise Feron.