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Sustainable States

Environment, Governance, and the Future of the Middle East

By: Jon B. Alterman,Natasha Hall,Will Todman

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Sustainable States

Environment, Governance, and the Future of the Middle East

By: Jon B. Alterman,Natasha Hall,Will Todman

The importance of environmentally sustainable public utilities in the Middle East is an improbable topic for a Washington think tank study. Yet, many countries in the Middle East face serious challenges providing utilities in any manner to their populations, and the failure to do so is an increasing flashpoint for public dissatisfaction. This study finds that providing more environmentally sustainable services in the Middle East would be an effective way to address many citizens’ grievances which go beyond the reliability of those services. It would also help ameliorate deep dissatisfaction with the quality of governance and help build trust between citizens and their governments. This study examines three sectors—power, water and sanitation, and solid waste—in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. While the three countries are different in many ways, each faces increasing challenges providing services to their citizens. Providing these services in an environmentally sustainable way would also crucially increase each country’s resilience and diminish their vulnerability in a chronically unstable region.

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1538140381

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Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a U.S. Strategic Anchor

By: Jon B. Alterman,Heather A. Conley,Haim Malka,Donatienne Ruy

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Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a U.S. Strategic Anchor

By: Jon B. Alterman,Heather A. Conley,Haim Malka,Donatienne Ruy

U.S. strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean is long overdue for revision. Today’s strategy was conceived 70 years ago and is no longer fit for purpose despite the continued strategic importance of the region for U.S. interests. To account for the dramatic changes that have occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean in the past two decades, it is time for the United States to create a new regional strategy that builds on common transatlantic interests, ensures European unity and security, provides greater stability in the Middle East, and safeguards state capacity against a myriad of strengthening nonstate actors. This report aims to offer such a new strategy, focusing on two priority areas: resolving the Syrian conflict, and recalibrating the relationship with Turkey. Much is at stake for the United States, and it must take a new strategic approach to the region or risk losing influence for the foreseeable future.

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1442280743

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Rocky Harbors

Taking Stock of the Middle East in 2015

By: Jon B. Alterman

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Taking Stock of the Middle East in 2015

By: Jon B. Alterman

This new edited volume analyzes the Middle East’s political, strategic, and economic realities in 2015, looking at both old and new challenges, how political actors are evolving, and how policymakers can think strategically about the region.

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1442240970

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The Vital Triangle

China, the United States, and the Middle East

By: Jon B. Alterman,John W. Garver

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The Vital Triangle

China, the United States, and the Middle East

By: Jon B. Alterman,John W. Garver

The United States has been deeply involved in the Middle East for more than a half century and seized with China's role in the world for a similar period of time. Up to now, the two issues have remained distinct. Increasingly, China's growing thirst for energy has brought it to the Middle East, where governments are curious how the growing superpower might fit into their own strategic understanding of the world. China's increasing role in the Middle East comes at a time when the United States is itself deeply enmeshed in the region, setting up the possibility of competition or even conflict between the two great powers. This volume explores the complex interrelationships among China, the United States, and the Middle East-what the authors call the "vital triangle." There is surely much to be gained from continuing the conventional two-dimensional analysis-China and the United States, the United States and the Middle East, and China and the Middle East. Such scholarship has a long history and no doubt a long future. But it is the three-dimensional equation-which seeks to understand the effects of the China-Middle East relationship on the United States, the U.S.-Middle East relationship on China, and the Sino-American relationship on the Middle East-that draws the authors' attention here. This approach captures the true dynamics of change in world affairs and the spiraling up and down of national interests. Central to this analysis is a belief that if any one of the three sides of this triangular relationship is unhappy, it has the power to make the other two unhappy as well. The stakes and the intimacy of the interrelationship highlight not only the importance of reaching accommodation, but also the potential payoff of agreement on common purpose.

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089206529X

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9780892065295

Federated Defense in the Middle East

By: Jon B. Alterman,Kathleen H. Hicks

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Federated Defense in the Middle East

By: Jon B. Alterman,Kathleen H. Hicks

This study examines the potential for a “federated defense” approach to U.S. action in the Middle East, the constraints to closer military cooperation in the region, and specific capability areas that would benefit from federated defense. Stabilizing the Middle East requires continued attention and investment from the United States and its global allies and partners. Federated defense involves building partner capabilities in a way that shares the burden of providing security in a more effective and efficient manner. Federated defense would, over time, create partner capabilities that augment and complement U.S. capabilities. Doing so requires identifying discrete areas of cooperation between the United States and its allies and partners that would leverage partner capabilities in pursuing common security objectives.

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1442258810

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Arab Reform and Foreign Aid

Lessons from Morocco

By: Haim Malka,Jon B. Alterman

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Arab Reform and Foreign Aid

Lessons from Morocco

By: Haim Malka,Jon B. Alterman

Talk of reform is on the lips of many in Morocco, from the salons to the slums, and far into the countryside. Moroccans talk about reform in their country as an imperative, and the country s young king has been a key driver. Because of that, Morocco has drawn the attention of governments in the United States and Europe, which have seen their own strategic interests being tied to economic, political, and social reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Given all of the interest in reform, are the Moroccans going about it the right way? Are outside powers playing the proper constructive role, or are they undermining their own and Moroccans efforts toward positive change? This study analyzes U.S. and European policies to promote reform in Morocco, as well as the efforts of Moroccans themselves, and it seeks to understand the most effective ways to create complementary strategies toward reform." -- Product description.

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0892064862

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Citizens in Training

Conscription and Nation-building in the United Arab Emirates

By: Jon B. Alterman,Margo Balboni

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Citizens in Training

Conscription and Nation-building in the United Arab Emirates

By: Jon B. Alterman,Margo Balboni

The U.S. Marines made famous their search for “a few good men.” The United Arab Emirates (UAE), however, wants all its men—from the ages of 18 to 30—to experience the discipline and rigors of military life. To that end, for reasons of national security, nation-building, and societal development, the UAE has instituted a universal conscription program, a rarity in the modern world of nations. This report is the most extensive effort to date to define and to understand the UAE conscription program—its successes, failures, and possible unintended consequences. The report outlines the circumstances influencing the UAE’s decision to impose military service for male citizens as a framework for an ambitious array of defense, nation-building, and human capital aims. Included in the report are details of the UAE’s program with a focus on important innovations, initial results, and relevant implications.

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Rocky Harbors

Taking Stock of the Middle East in 2015

By: Jon B. Alterman

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Taking Stock of the Middle East in 2015

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Gulf Kaleidoscope

Reflections on the Iranian Challenge

By: Jon B. Alterman

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Gulf Kaleidoscope

Reflections on the Iranian Challenge

By: Jon B. Alterman

Gulf Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Iranian Challenge analyzes potential U.S. strategies toward Iran and how different international actors are likely to respond to the U.S. pursuit of those strategies. Succinct chapters describe three principal approaches toward Iran: engagement, containment, and deterrence. The volume then goes on to analyze how key parties—Israel, Iran's Gulf Arab neighbors, and the rising powers of Turkey, China, India, and Russia, as well as the Iranians themselves—would likely respond to each strategy. As Zbigniew Brzezinski remarks in his foreword, the authors “make a truly original contribution by assessing how different U.S. strategies toward Iran can affect the calculations of a range of international actors.” It is clear that virtually any U.S. strategy contains elements of engagement, containment, and deterrence. The goal of this volume is to dig deeper into how those strategies work and to highlight the subtle interrelationships between the actions and reactions of key parties. Each country's actions affects the others, and each country has its own assessment of what an acceptable outcome would be and what it is willing to do to accomplish it. Importantly, each country is also interested in understanding the second- and third-order effects of its actions. How much do countries worry about an ascendant United States? How much do they worry about an unfettered Iran? The answers differ, and the actions each country is willing to take differ accordingly. Iran has been a central concern of U.S. strategy for more than three decades, and it is hard to foresee a time in the coming decade in which it will cease to be. This collection of essays is intended to help enrich thinking now and in the years to come.

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Book's by Jon B. Alterman

Sustainable States

Sustainable States

Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a U.S. Strategic Anchor

Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a U.S. Strategic Anchor

Rocky Harbors

Rocky Harbors

The Vital Triangle

The Vital Triangle

Federated Defense in the Middle East

Federated Defense in the Middle East

Arab Reform and Foreign Aid

Arab Reform and Foreign Aid

Citizens in Training

Citizens in Training

Rocky Harbors

Rocky Harbors

Gulf Kaleidoscope

Gulf Kaleidoscope

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