Changing Security Paradigm in West Asia: Regional and International Responses

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The nations within the West Asian region are currently facing substantial shifts within both their internal and neighboring contexts. Among the foremost concerns is the issue of security. The region has been affected by significant political disturbances, internal conflicts, sectarian clashes, and acts of terrorism, all of which hold consequences not only for the regional dynamics but also for the broader global framework. Israel has consistently objected to Hamas being included in any PA government. In 2009, for example, Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would never make peace with Hamas and “cannot accept Hamas as a negotiating partner". Following the April 2011 Cairo Agreement, he ruled out a peace agreement for that reason. He said: "The PA must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both" and "How can you talk to us about peace when you're talking about peace with Hamas. You can choose [to make] peace with Israel or you can choose peace with Hamas". The West Asia Centre seeks to cover issues, themes and countries of the region which are undergoing rapid political transformation impacting the political and security situation of the region and beyond. Popular protests demanding political and economic reforms and the subsequent fall of some long ruling authoritarian rulers and the rise of Islamists to power have significantly changed the region's political landscape. This book comprises a compilation of essays that delve into different facets of the evolving security landscape in West Asia, along with the corresponding regional and global reactions.

Dr. Vaibhav Sainya Associate Professor and H.O.D, Deptt of Political Science at R.D. Dayal College of Arts and Science at Lalitpur. He has throughout brilliant academic career, received Gold Medal in his Postgraduation. He qualified JRF/NET and joined the College in 2008. He has specialisation in International Relation. He has attended thirty six national and eight international seminars and conferences and presented research papers.

The nations within the West Asian region are currently facing substantial shifts within both their internal and neighboring contexts. Among the foremost concerns is the issue of security. The region has been affected by significant political disturbances, internal conflicts, sectarian clashes, and acts of terrorism, all of which hold consequences not only for the regional dynamics but also for the broader global framework. As this geographical area confronts a range of complex socioeconomic challenges, numerous actors from beyond the region's borders, as well as non-state entities, and a limited number of regional participants, are striving to establish and expand their respective spheres of influence.

The Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria over the past five years represent a conundrum. Standard development indicators failed to capture or predict the outburst of popular anger during the so- called Arab Spring of 2011.

Political Islam or Islamism as characterized by the International Crisis Group is "the dynamic affirmation and advancement of convictions, medicines, laws, on the other hand strategies that are held to be Islamic in character." From their point of view the political activists are looking for "the rebuilding of genuine, unique Islam", an Islamic request that is purged of all advancements, deviations and impacts that have crawled into it over the years.

This book then moves to inspect the critical contrasts between the US- drove battle against ISIS, and the Russian endeavors in Syria, notwithstanding looking at the focal part of the Syrian government and armed force in the battle against terrorism. At last, this part looks at the risks of radical philosophies being upheld and advanced by governments and people in the Gulf district, and their impact on social attachment in focused nations, with Syria being the most recent case.