The Middle East in 2025

The second MENARA Stakeholders' Engagement Meeting was held in Rome on 10-11 January 2019 under the title "The Middle East in 2025". Co-organised with the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies from Washington and the Qatar Armed Forces Strategic Studies Center, the meeting brought together around 30 participants from Europe, the United States and the Middle East to discuss the future of the region in different dimensions, ranging from energy and climate-related issues, state-society relations, the role of regional and global players to the future prospects for the conflicts in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. Participants also included some members of the MENARA consortium who were able to present and discuss some of the preliminary results of the project.