Carsten Wieland is the senior Middle East advisor for Germany’s Green Party Parliamentary Group and an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Previously, he served with the Syria team at the Foreign Office in Berlin and with three UN special envoys for Syria (2014-2019). Dr. Wieland’s latest book is Syria and the Neutrality Trap: The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes (forthcoming in July from I. B. Tauris).
