Government & Politics

To pursue the critical goal of economic reform, and in some cases transformation, US partners in the Middle East have had to significantly reevaluate their public sectors and improve their bureaucratic effectiveness and efficiency. This has created new pressures on government and politics in the region that are difficult to discern for the non-expert observer. Meanwhile, the political landscape in the United States has changed significantly over the past decade, with increasing polarization creating policy uncertainty for US partners in the region.