Nick Grinstead

Nick Grinstead works as a project assistant at Clingendael’s Conflict Research Unit, focusing on the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and political economy analysis.

Makhlouf no more? Russia is calling in the debts in Syria

Rumors about Rami Makhlouf’s asset seizures might be signaling divisions between Russia and Iran in Syria.

By Nick Grinstead

/ 6 Sep 2019

Makhlouf no more? Russia is calling in the debts in Syria

Frenemies forever: Iraqi Shi’a after Mosul

In Baghdad Iraqi Shi’a political parties and elites are returning to patterns of infighting habituated by decades of coalition- and relation-building in both the pre- and post-Saddam Iraq.

By Nick Grinstead

/ 1 May 2017

Yemen: under fire, desperate for peace

Can the Yemen peace talks succeed? The dire humanitarian situation demands it but political factionalism and external interference may prove inordinate obstacles.

By Nick Grinstead and Iba Abdo

/ 16 Jun 2015

The Iraqi crisis: rethinking the narrative

An approach to Iraq focused on military intervention, with some humanitarian assistance, has defied the complexity of the domestic and regional kaleidoscope. No wonder it is failing.

By Erwin van Veen and Nick Grinstead

/ 22 May 2015