Human Security in the Middle East and North Africa

This book analyzes major human security threats in the MENA region, including food, water, energy, climate, and health security. It also examines sectarian conflict, terrorism, and poverty in the region. The author highlights the relationship between human security concerns and conventional or military security threats. He demonstrates how MENA nations failed to respond to the region’s human security threats and to develop a human security formula and regional security architecture that included both human and conventional security threats. Therefore, this book concludes that the MENA region’s future will be determined by its governments’ ability to address human security threats.

Alaa Al-Din Arafat is an independent academic and author. He was a former Associate Researcher at London University, UK, and a Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the FUE, Egypt. He also was an Associate Researcher at CEDEJ, Egypt. He is the author of Regional and International Powers in the Gulf Security and The Mubarak Leadership and Future in Democracy in Egypt, as well as Egypt in Crisis and The Rise of Islamism in Egypt, all published by Palgrave Macmillan.