Security Issues in the Middle East
December 2001

 

Along with fundamentally altering U.S. national security and foreign policy, the events of September 11 have also had profound effects on many other states around the world, not least among them Afghanistan. For this quarterly issue of Security Issues in the Middle East, the question is what September 11 and its aftermath mean for the states in that region and U.S. policy toward them. For the past three years, these quarterly reports have analyzed

security issues in the Middle East and highlighted recurring themes and ongoing dilemmas for policy makers. In many ways, the region is overdue for its once-a-decade catalytic event to change many of the patterns of interaction that seem to have become frozen over the past ten years. September 11 is that event. However, underlying geographic, economic, social, political, and military realities in the region will provide some continuity. The individual country chapters in this report provide details about what has changed, what is likely to change, and what will remain the same.

 

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