Middle East/Southwest Asia
The Middle East/Southwest Asia program looks at a wide range of regional issues, with a principal focus on the regional security agenda, from the Mediterranean to the Gulf. In 2012, our research will continue to address the challenge of Iran, the security implications of Iraq and its reintegration in the region, and issues related to stability of the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. In addition, we are pleased to expand our work on the regional implications of the Arab uprisings that began in 2010. A new project, Pathways to Progress: Peace, Prosperity and Change in the Middle East, will look at the regional economic and security repercussions of the political shifts, from North Africa to the Gulf. Our activities include workshops, field research, international conferences, and publications.
Research News
Seismic Shift: Understanding Change in the Middle East
In early 2011, the Stimson Center invited a group of experts who represented distinct non-governmental institutional perspectives to look back on the work of these sectors and evaluate how they looked at prospects for change in the Middle East. The sectors included: university scholars and international organizations, think tanks, democracy and human rights non-governmental
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Gulf Security
With geopolitical tensions in the Persian Gulf region poised to simmer through 2012, the program will continue its examination of traditional and non-traditional security issues impacting the Gulf states and their neighbors, with an emphasis on the regional politics of Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian peninsula. Key areas of research and analysis will include Iran’s nuclear
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Levant/North Africa
As change continues to reverberate across the Arab world, the Stimson Center will monitor closely the impact of ongoing transformations in the Levant and North Africa. In 2012, Stimson will devote particular attention to the challenges posed by the upheaval in Syria and its implications for regional stability, including the potential for a sectarian civil war inside
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Arab Uprisings
In 2012, the Stimson Center, in partnership with the George C. Marshall Foundation, will explore in greater depth the dynamics propelling momentous change in the Arab world, as well as the broad repercussions associated with these transformations. A new project, Pathways to Progress: Peace, Prosperity, and Change in the Middle East, will serve as the focal point of our
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Videos
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June 20, 2011
Life is Complicated in Lebanon (Bloggingheads.tv) -
January 26, 2011
Lebanon’s Political Crisis (NPR) -
November 23, 2010
Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge
Experts
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Ellen Laipson President and CEO
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Mona Yacoubian Senior Advisor, Middle East Project Director, Pathways to Progress
Staff
- Russell Sticklor Research Associate