Political instability and its impact on environmental insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa security complex

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1 m.a student of International Relations

2 assistant professor, International Relations, Ahl al Bayt International University, Tehran, Iran

10.22080/jpir.2026.30480.1488

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The Middle East and North Africa security complex can perhaps be considered one of the complexes in which environmental security is still considered as part of the lower politics in the sense of realism. Despite these recent developments and the increase in climate change on the one hand and political instability in this complex, these issues have gradually gained increasing importance, so that in some areas they have become the most important concern of some countries in the region. Accordingly, the main question that arises is how has political instability led to environmental insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa? In response, it should be said that political instability, by affecting the reduction of government focus on budgets dedicated to environmental issues, direct destruction due to war, lack of direct and effective negotiations, destruction of wars as a result of managerial instability and corruption, and lack of focus on clean energy, has caused environmental destruction, which in turn leads to increased dissatisfaction and erosion of the stability and legitimacy of the governments of the region. The present study has attempted to prove this issue by using a quantitative approach in the form of statistics and tables and a qualitative approach in the form of interpretation of political and environmental trends to reach a comprehensive assessment of this issue.

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