Publication

This meeting note reports the proceedings of the 37th IPA Vienna Seminar held in June 2007 with the theme “The Middle East: Fragility, Crisis and New Challenges for Peace Operations”. Participants drawn from the policy-making community, academia, military staff and the diplomatic community in Vienna explored the various facets and evolving nature of third-party engagement in the Middle East. In the context of several acute and worsening crises at the time of the seminar, participants discussed the potential of - and limits to - the role of external parties in the Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iraqi arenas.