Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs cordially invites you to a book discussion

Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization
by Anders Jägerskog
Counselor for regional water issues in the MENA region at the Embassy of Sweden in Amman, Jordan

Location: Issam Fares Institute – Conference Room, 4th Floor

Increasingly, the Middle East faces a highly complex and fragile security system, where issues such as religious radicalism, terrorism, and democratic deficits are interacting with a number of extremely critical challenges to peace and stability. The rich deposits of natural resources, such as oil and gas, suffer from a strained renewable resource base that includes water and arable land. This leads to water scarcity, desertification, and land degradation. Also, increasing population, industrialization, and urbanization put more and more demand on the food supply as climatic variability leads to large fluctuations in precipitation between years. In addition, the region is the source and host of a large number of economic or forced migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons.
The book “Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization” by Ashok Swain and Anders Jägerskog analyzes these emerging security challenges in a comprehensive and systematic manner. It draws national and regional security issues into both the global security analysis and human security perspective. It also outlines where the security issues are evolving in the region and possible policy responses.

This event will be in English