The Future of Regional Security in the Middle East: Expert Perspectives on Coming Developments

This report contains a collection of papers on topics with relevance for security in the Middle East. The analysis is focused on the regional level. The paper are written by renowned scholars from various academic disciplines who were specifically tasked with addressing future perspectives on regional security. The topics covered in this report are: energy and security; challenges of natural geography; political contestation following the Arab Spring and state responses; the military tool; armed non-state actors; US Middle East policy; regional security architecture; and the historical role of the army in Middle East state-building.