Why does the Middle East lag behind every other region in the world in security architecture? What is security architecture?
The Century Foundation has launched the results of a multi-year research project, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, that examines the Middle East’s current regional security environment at a time of perhaps unprecedented turmoil and instability.
In this podcast, TCF senior fellows Michael Wahid Hanna and Thanassis Cambanis discuss the findings in Order from Ashes: New Foundations for Security in the Middle East, which will be released online beginning January 2018 and in book form in March 2018.
We look at (mostly failed) efforts to create security cooperation. Bold ideas like a pan-Arab peacekeeping force or a new peace process might be impossible in the current climate, but there are plenty of piecemeal efforts that could create security architecture that still improves human security in meaningful ways. This research suggests that security and reform cannot be considered in isolation; they are inextricably linked. Any effective conversation about reform and stability ought to address the security threats, fears, and domestic politics that underlie government decisions.
Participants include:
Iran in Iraq
Do Elections Help or Hurt Middle-East Democracy?
Bridging the Middle East’s Security Gulf
Honor Killings and Women’s Rights
Iraq’s Militia Problem and A Dangerous Point in Syria
Why We Shouldn’t Expect an Arab NATO
Dealing with Iran and Rebalancing American Interests
Who Cares About A Faraway Siege?
A Post-American World
Talking with Syrian Exiles
Iraq after the Kurdish referendum
Syria's Next Phase
Press Freedom in Egypt
Hezbollah and Iran's Road
Demythologize ISIS
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