Full Description
This book offers explores how non-traditional security (NTS) issues are reshaping the political and strategic landscape in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Moving beyond conventional state-centric and militarised approaches, the book analyses how environmental stress, food and water insecurity, public-health vulnerabilities, gender and societal insecurity, migration, and demographic pressures have become central to national policy agendas in the MENA region. Drawing on extensive regional case studies from the Gulf, Levant, and North Africa, it examines how governments, communities, and non-state actors interpret and respond to these multidimensional challenges. The work highlights why some states in the region securitise NTS threats, why others pursue governance-based responses, and how globalisation, conflict, and climate change and intensify existing structural pressures. Accessible and empirically grounded, this volume provides a systematic framework for understanding NTS in a region undergoing rapid political, social, and environmental transformation.
This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations.
Contents
Introduction: Rethinking Security in the Middle East Chapter 1: Understanding Non-Traditional Security: Expanding the Boundaries of Threat and Governance Chapter 2: Security Transitions in the MENA: State Fragility, Reform, and the Politics of Transformation Chapter 3: Economic Security: Developmental Dependence and Structural Vulnerability Chapter 4: Food Security: Scarcity, Sovereignty, and the Political Economy of Provision Chapter 5: Environmental Security: Climate Stress, Resource Depletion, and Human Resilience Chapter 6: Health Security: Pandemics, Public Health, and State Capacity Chapter 7: Gender and Security: Inequality, Agency, and the Limits of Reform Chapter 8: Societal Security: Identity, Cohesion, and the Securitisation of Difference Chapter 9: Migration and Human Mobility: Displacement, Labour, and Border Governance Chapter 10: National Security and Non-Traditional Challenges: Institutionalising Policy and Reform Chapter 11: Non-State Actors and Security Governance: Between Parallel Authority and Partnership Conclusion: Reframing Security in the Middle East: A Non-Traditional Security Perspective
