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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.
This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination
movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks
to understand what factors promote better outcomes and what factors
promote worse ones. Rather than focusing on the metric of achieving
independence, the project evaluates the quality of societies after
independence, including such elements as economic strength and
political resilience, and it analyzes what factors contribute to
different outcomes. The study finds that the single most
determinative factor in the success of any independence movement is
frequently beyond the control of such a movement, often relating to
the global and historical contexts in which the movement finds
itself. However, a whole host of factors are within the control of
such a movement, but movements do not always seek to act on many of
them. Activists become so convinced in the justness of the
independence cause that they do not focus on actions that would
contribute to greater success after independence.
This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination
movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks
to understand what factors promote better outcomes and what factors
promote worse ones. Rather than focusing on the metric of achieving
independence, the project evaluates the quality of societies after
independence, including such elements as economic strength and
political resilience, and it analyzes what factors contribute to
different outcomes. The study finds that the single most
determinative factor in the success of any independence movement is
frequently beyond the control of such a movement, often relating to
the global and historical contexts in which the movement finds
itself. However, a whole host of factors are within the control of
such a movement, but movements do not always seek to act on many of
them. Activists become so convinced in the justness of the
independence cause that they do not focus on actions that would
contribute to greater success after independence.
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.
Gathering field work from almost twenty countries along with
in-depth analysis and case studies, Religious Radicalism after the
Arab Uprisings explores how radical groups, governments, and
publics have responded to the Arab uprisings of 2011 and how
conflicts that many thought were coming to an end are likely to
continue indefinitely. Leading experts from the Center for
Strategic & International Studies explore how radical groups
have combined techniques learned from more liberal counterparts
with a simultaneous decline in police capacity to construct an
effective threat against established powers. The book also examines
how governments have responded to unprecedented challenges to their
authority by attacking a wide range of religiously inspired groups.
It concludes that to face the current threats, governments need
analyze the effectiveness of existing tools, discarding those that
are outdated and adopting the new strategies to counter the
ever-mounting radical presence.
Gathering field work from almost twenty countries along with
in-depth analysis and case studies, Religious Radicalism after the
Arab Uprisings explores how radical groups, governments, and
publics have responded to the Arab uprisings of 2011 and how
conflicts that many thought were coming to an end are likely to
continue indefinitely. Leading experts from the Center for
Strategic & International Studies explore how radical groups
have combined techniques learned from more liberal counterparts
with a simultaneous decline in police capacity to construct an
effective threat against established powers. The book also examines
how governments have responded to unprecedented challenges to their
authority by attacking a wide range of religiously inspired groups.
It concludes that to face the current threats, governments need
analyze the effectiveness of existing tools, discarding those that
are outdated and adopting the new strategies to counter the
ever-mounting radical presence.
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