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USIP Examines Security Sector Transformation in North Africa, Middle East

USIP Examines Security Sector Transformation in North Africa, Middle East

Thursday, May 10, 2012

By: USIP Staff

The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) held its third annual conference on security sector governance on May 10, drawing in activists from North Africa and the Middle East as well as former U.S. ambassadors to the region to assess the political and security-sector challenges arising from the “Arab Awakening.”

Type: Analysis

Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States

Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States

Thursday, December 1, 2011

By: Henri J. Barkey;  Scott B. Lasensky;  Phebe Marr;  editors

Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States examines how Iraq's evolving political order affects its complex relationships with its neighbors and the United States. The book depicts a region unbalanced, shaped by new and old tensions, struggling with a classic collective action dilemma, and anxious about Iraq's political future, as well as America's role in the region, all of which suggest trouble ahead absent concerted efforts to promote regional cooperation. In the volume's case studies, acc...

Type: Book

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