Middle East
IPI’s Middle East program focuses on a wide-ranging agenda of research, analysis, and outreach with the aim of broadly underpinning international efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.
IPI’s approach is informed by the understanding that only a comprehensive peace process can be successful and sustainable. Thus, research and policy analysis also inherently need to address the wider regional and global dimensions. IPI views the Middle East in the early 21st century as a region undergoing monumental shifts. Where there used to be one defining center of gravity, there are now a variety of separate yet interlinked epicenters of instability and conflict. The Arab-Israeli conflict clearly remains essential to the region’s instability, but Iraq, Iran, and the Syrian-Lebanese arena have emerged as other important areas of uncertainty and conflict zones, with separate causal chains and dynamics but with significant interlinkages between all of them. Research and analysis for the purpose of furthering peace and stability thus have to address all areas of conflict as well as the interlinkages between them.
Against this background, Middle East projects at IPI focus on all areas related to the core concern of the Middle East peace process. Additional projects respond to acute trends and demands and relate to broader issues beyond the peace process, though the connection between such matters and the peace process, as well as wider regional and global peace and security, are explored.
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