The Centre for Geopolitics is hosting the first of several videopanels linked to its “Westphalia for the Middle East” project. Corona has significant impacts on the political situation in the Middle East. In this panel, we will attempt to understand better how the contexts of conflict and insecurity in the region are changing through Covid-19, how the pandemic might impact existing crisis and whether what new challenges might emerge.
The panel:
Dr Samir Altaqi, General Director amd Co-Editor in Middle East Briefing, Orient Reearch Centre, Dubai
Prof. Menachem Klein, Department of Political Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Ambassador (Ret.) Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist, Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Prof. Ali Ansari (moderator), Director of the Westphalia for the Middle East project at the Centre for Geopolitics and Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at the University of St Andrews
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