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Don’t Take Stability for Granted

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Posted: June 23rd, 2016

By Sultan Barakat

Sultan Barakat is the Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center and a Senior Fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has acted as principal investigator on numerous large-scale conflict and recovery research projects for the World Bank, the EU, U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, The Institute of International Education, United States Institute of Peace, the International Labour Organization, and others.

Despite a recent wave of terrorist attacks in northern Jordan, the country’s government remains strong. In fact, according to Sultan Barakat, Director of Research at Brookings Doha Center, “it is quite remarkable, despite the recent attacks, that things are reasonably good.” However, Barakat cautions that stability “can’t just be maintained on its own” and that disenfranchised youth may pose the biggest threat to Jordanian security moving forward.

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