Emerging security threats in the Middle East

The impact of climate change and globalization

Bibliographic Data

ID9898063
AuthorsRay Shaffer (0000-0002-6766-2194, corresponding author), Ryan Shaffer
Year2017
Volume93
Issue5
Pages1276-1278
Publication date2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ia/iix143
OpenAlexW2751098556
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Ashok Swain and Anders Jägerskog examine vulnerabilities that have the potential to become regional security threats in the Middle East. In particular, the authors are concerned with the Mashrek region and the Arabian peninsula, including Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria as well as Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Though they note several ongoing problems, the book focuses on how emerging issues have the power to further impact contemporary security. The study takes an inclusive approach, exploring how climate change and globalization will add to concerns in the region and how regional and global actors have recently turned their attention to development issues and sustainability. ‘The combination of having regimes that are determined to stay in power and at the same time are unable to meet the development and economic needs of the people carries the risk of creating internal instability’ (p. 27). Indeed, the failure to achieve democratic reforms has created insecure surroundings where extremists thrive and a spillover that has affected neighbouring countries

Climate change · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Middle East · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Spillover effect · Sustainability · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Socioeconomic Development in MENA

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