Managing Compromise in the Middle East
To move from stagnation to effective governance, Middle Eastern countries need to create a space for politics – a national comfort zone to foster cooperation and distribute power. The region is facing problems that are simply too complex and deep-rooted for isolated, top-down solutions.
CAIRO – The Middle East, and especially the Arab world, is experiencing a period of fundamental change and even more fundamental challenges. But the region’s ability to meet the many challenges that it faces has been complicated by national, regional, and international disagreements about what form change – both across the region and in individual societies – should take.
CAIRO – The Middle East, and especially the Arab world, is experiencing a period of fundamental change and even more fundamental challenges. But the region’s ability to meet the many challenges that it faces has been complicated by national, regional, and international disagreements about what form change – both across the region and in individual societies – should take.