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Middle East Center
The Middle East is a region whose deeply diverse people are profoundly interconnected both with one another and the rest of the world. It is also a pool of immense human capital and tremendous youthful energy waiting to be used to advance human development and growth. U.S. policy has tended to ignore this connectivity, seeing immediate security concerns as divorced from or even in tension with regional human security and prosperity. This approach flows from zero-sum thinking about U.S. security and the security of the region’s people, generating policies that harm both. The Middle East Center at The New Lines Institute aims to inform a U.S. policy that recognizes the connectivity of U.S. and regional security and prosperity, and the connectivity that ties the region’s people together and to the world.
The Middle East Center was co-founded by Faysal Itani and Nicholas A. Heras and is currently led by Professor Heras.
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The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy publishes work that combines geopolitical insight with subject-matter expertise. New Lines Institute publications examine tactical developments involving regimes, nonstate actors, local politics, ideologies, etc. Our work situates them in the strategic context of macro-level factors such as geography, populations, economics, military power, history, and culture. All our content must demonstrate analytical empathy and is geared toward advancing the cause of human security and stabilization and development on our planet. That said, we do not publish “op-ed” pieces, polemical content, or activist/advocacy work.
We welcome contributions from diverse experts with various sub-specialties to ensure that we consistently produce the highest-quality product. Our team firmly believes that expertise exists across the political spectrum and disciplinary fields; the key is to help our authors showcase it without indulging in partisan discussions. We expect our authors to focus on the how, why and (most importantly) the what next because our audience is already very familiar with the who, what, where, and when of the subjects we tackle.