What would multilateral security in the Middle East look like?
Even with a new JCPOA guiding the way, the effort to bridge all of the conflicting interests and countries would be enormous.
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, a syndicated columnist and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer. A veteran, award-winning foreign correspondent whose career focused on ethnic and religious conflict, James focuses at RSIS on political and social change in the Middle East and North Africa, the impact of change in the Middle East and North Africa on Southeast and Central Asia and the nexus of sports, politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa and Asia.
Even with a new JCPOA guiding the way, the effort to bridge all of the conflicting interests and countries would be enormous.
A renewed agreement will ensure stronger ties in some areas, while setting into motion new challenges elsewhere.
To avoid sanctions, countries are actively reopening moribund routes and creating greater connectivity across the Middle East and Asia.
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