POLITICS GOVERNANCE STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS
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<strong>POLITICS</strong>, <strong>GOVERNANCE</strong>, AND <strong>STATE</strong>-<strong>SOCIETY</strong> <strong>RELATIONS</strong><br />
governments, particularly by over-securitizing<br />
bilateral relationships.<br />
• The United States should devote greater<br />
support to governments that are using political<br />
compromise instead of violence to resolve<br />
disputes.<br />
Ultimately, building societies that are resilient in<br />
the face of sectarian conflict and terrorist violence<br />
requires more effective, responsive institutions that<br />
can win citizens’ trust and loyalty, and more fair<br />
and functional systems that can offer the region’s<br />
majority, its young people, meaningful opportunities<br />
to achieve their ambitions for themselves and their<br />
communities. The project must give young men and<br />
women reason to invest in their hopes for this world,<br />
instead of hastening their progress toward the next<br />
one. Sustainable governance in the Middle East is<br />
an imperative for the security of the region and the<br />
world—urgent, and worthy of thoughtful, persistent<br />
investment by regional and global leaders. There<br />
are no more alternatives to experiment with, and<br />
no more time to waste.<br />
ATLANTIC COUNCIL<br />
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