Real Security: Governance and Stability in the Arab World
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 26 November 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week on the podcast, we’re bringing you some post-Thanksgiving food for thought on the uncertain state of the Arab world. On November 21, Madeleine Albright, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Stephen Hadley, and Amr Hamzawy sat down at the Brookings Institution to discuss a new report on “Real Security: Governance and Stability in the Arab World." What lead to the breakdown of governance across Arab countries? What can be done to establish more stable governance and increase security? And what role does the United States have in all of this?
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | This generation of Arabs has a different set of globalized set of expectations. |
| 0:39.0 | That means it's not just about making sure they have a job. |
| 0:42.0 | They expect to be able to participate. |
| 0:45.0 | They expect to be able to set their own path in life and not just have it directed for them by their monarch or their father or their uncle or anybody else. |
| 0:55.0 | And at essence, what they expect is the thing that liberal societies are best structured to provide, |
| 1:05.0 | which is the opportunity for every individual to find their own path to human flourishing. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, if I can put it in philosophical terms. |
| 1:13.0 | So it's not, governments can't get away with just offering enough jobs or enough health care or enough free education. |
| 1:22.0 | Check the box and their legitimate. |
| 1:26.0 | They have to meet that set of expectations. |
| 1:28.0 | They have to give people opportunity to find for themselves a pathway. |
| 1:33.0 | And that means they have to be more open. They have to be more responsive. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Quinta Jurexic and this is the LawFair podcast, November 26th, 2016. |
| 1:45.0 | This week on the podcast, we're bringing you some post-thanksgiving food for thought on the state of the Arab world. |
| 1:50.0 | Last Monday, Madeleine Albright, Tamara Kaufman-Wittes, Stephen Hadley, and Amar Housaoui sat down at the Brookings Institution to discuss Tamara's new report on real security, governance and stability in the Arab world, |
| 2:03.0 | which was commissioned by the Atlantic Council's Middle East Strategy Task Force, chaired by Albright and Hadley. |
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