TY - BOOK AU - Larrabee,F.Stephen ED - National Defense Research Institute (U.S.) ED - Center for Middle East Public Policy (Rand Corporation) ED - Rand Corporation. ED - Rand Corporation. ED - Geneva Center for Security Policy. TI - The Middle East: the changing strategic environment T2 - Conference proceedings SN - 0833039504 AV - DS79.76 .L37 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Santa Monica, CA PB - RAND KW - Democracy KW - Middle East KW - Strategic planning KW - Foreign relations KW - Politics and government KW - 1980- KW - Strategic aspects N1 - "RAND National Defense Research Institute."; Conference held June 26-28, 2005; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format N2 - 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 UR - http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF223/ ER -