The Middle East : the changing strategic environment /
F. Stephen Larrabee.
- iii, 25 pages ; 28 cm
- Conference proceedings ; 223 .
- Conference proceedings (Rand Corporation) ; 223. .
"RAND National Defense Research Institute." Conference held June 26-28, 2005.
On June 26-28, 2005, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy held their sixth annual conference in Gstaad, Switzerland. The conference was devoted to a dialogue on "The Middle East: Changing Strategic Environment." Participants discussed democracy and stability in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Palestine, and Israel; the situation in Iraq; Iran's nuclear program; the roles of the United States, the EU, and the UN Security Council in promoting stability and change in the region; strategies for countering Islamic terrorism; and developments in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.