Abstract

The Middle East is facing most severe terrorist threat in the world with some rival definitions of terrorism. There are many unsolved traditional security issues linked with nontraditional security issues while terrorism parallels sovereignty contradiction, nationalist conflicts, and religious friction. Consequently, anti-terrorism movements in the Middle East just achieve little even almost all countries are devoting themselves to anti-terrorism. To establish an effective regional anti-terror cooperation regime, countries in the Middle East have to cultivate economic interdependency among them by promoting economic cooperation and to divert public attentions from religious, nationalist, and political affairs into economic agendas.

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