Content Type: Working Paper / Publishing Institution: NATO Defense College / Political Geography: Middle East / Publication Year: / Topic: International Cooperation

Author:: Jean-loup Samaan
Publication Date:: 10-2012
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: Eight years after NATO initiated its engagement with Gulf countries through the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI), the results have been modest, not to say disappointing. True, some recent achievements are worth mentioning: the participation in 2011 of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar in Operation Unified Protector in Libya, or the appointment, the same year, of the first UAE Ambassador to NATO, which represented an unprecedented and innovative way to strengthen the partnership.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, International Cooperation, and Reform
Political Geography:: Middle East, Libya, Arabia, and United Arab Emirates

Author:: Sally Khalifa Isaac
Publication Date:: 03-2011
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: This paper was researched and written before the upheaval in the Arab world. It highlights many aspects of the limitations in NATO's relations with its Arab partners. It argues that the current settings governing NATO-Arab relations feature no concrete cooperation schemes.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Africa, Middle East, and Arabia

Author:: Celine Touboul
Publication Date:: 09-2011
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: This research aims at examining whether NATO could be the provider of an international force to supervise the implementation of an Israeli-Syrian peace treaty. It proceeds by outlining the main characteristics of the peacekeeping mission needed for that task, based on the likely provisions of the future Israeli-Syrian peace treaty.
Topic:: Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, International Cooperation, Treaties and Agreements, and Peacekeeping
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Syria

Author:: Florence Gaub
Publication Date:: 03-2010
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: In 2000, President Clinton suggested the presence of an international force to oversee security following an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. This could be a NATO force, according to Thomas Friedman. His idea was revived in 2008 by President Obama's National Security Advisor James Jones. The suggestion of a NATO presence in the Middle East sparked a debate that up to now has revolved around a multitude of aspects: the pros and cons, the timing, the actors of such a NATO involvement, the possible preconditions and consequences, and has also triggered a debate in Germany on whether the conduct of patrols in the civility of Israel would be reconcilable with Germany's past.
Topic:: NATO, International Cooperation, and Peacekeeping
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, Palestine, and Germany

Author:: Samuel Grier
Publication Date:: 10-2007
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: There is an expectation that the West, and the United States in particular, faces catastrophe in Iraq and Afghanistan. Confronted with significant casualties arising from the employment of asymmetric warfare by determined adversaries, the United States and its NATO and Coalition partners have found decisive solutions to both conflicts elusive. Similarly, the challenges confronting Iraqis are daunting, and according to the recently released declassified Key Findings of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, dependence on Coalition forces as an essential stabilizing element in Iraq will continue.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, International Cooperation, and War
Political Geography:: Afghanistan, United States, Iraq, and Middle East

Author:: Tibor Szvircsev Tresch and Cees M. Coops
Publication Date:: 10-2007
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: On 15 and 16 March 2007 a conference was held at the NATO Defense College on the topic of “Cultural Challenges in Military Operations”. It offered a preliminary overview of the operational and multicultural challenges of cooperation among different forces with NGOs, IOs and the local population in theatres.
Topic:: Defense Policy, NATO, International Cooperation, and International Security
Political Geography:: Middle East and Yugoslavia

Author:: Ilan Greilsammer
Publication Date:: 01-2007
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: Au départ de cette recherche il y a une constatation: l'importance des divergences entre Israël et les pays européens de l'OTAN, concernant les solutions durables au conflit israélo-arabe, et concernant la sécurité d'Israël.
Topic:: Security, NATO, and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Middle East and Israel

Author:: Fouad Ammor, Mohamed Ould Haless, Ferdaous Ben Sassi, Mehid Taje, and Laurence Ammour
Publication Date:: 04-2006
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: La première partie de nos travaux consacrés au Maghreb Stratégique, pour lesquels nous avions donné la parole en juin 2005 à deux Algériens, un Tunisien et un Français, avait mis en éviden ce les trois points suivants: la valeur stratégique du Maghreb n'est pas la somme de chacun des pays qui le composent, chaque Etat ayant ses prop res atouts, ses intérêts et ses contraintes; la sécurité de l'ensem ble maghrébin reste tributaire de transformations internes politiques, économ iques et sociales tout autant nécessaires que difficiles à mettre en œuv re; les cadres de coopération régionale et internationale tardent à tro uver une forme efficace.
Topic:: Security and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Middle East and Arabia

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