Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Policy makers, political and state elites, and civilian and military cadres have grappled with the unprecedented crisis of Covid‐19 in the Middle East and North Africa. Against this gloomy backdrop, the main question became whether the region could sustain its traditional security‐first policy even though the definition of security has changed. Could the state perpetuate its role as the arbiter of a broken clientelistic contract in a state‐led socioeconomic order? Could geopolitical rivalries be upheld against unprecedented domestic challenges? This article tries to illuminate the changing role of the state in the Middle East and North Africa, the rising salience of institutional good governance, and their effects on regional geopolitics in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Source: Middle East Policy
DOI: 10.1111/mepo.12649
Institutions: Center for International Policy Research, Qatar University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4295338052