Amaney Jamal

Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, and co-founder and co-principal investigator of Arab Barometer, a public-opinion research project focused on the Arab world.

Security Plans Fail Without Legitimate Political Authority

Salam Fayyad, Kim Ghattas, Amaney Jamal and Herro Mustafa argue that the Middle East’s security crises cannot be resolved through military pressure or technocratic arrangements alone. In Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq, they say, armed groups can be constrained only by institutions with the authority, capacity and political legitimacy to govern; regional integration, meanwhile, remains tied to Palestinian statehood rather than efforts to bypass it.

The Aspen InstituteJul 17, 202611 min read