İnternal and External Factors in the Middle East Region

There are many internal and external risk factors that influence and shape their policies and security perceptions across the Middle East region. However, historical process and concrete examples have shown that the internal risk factors are more effective in increasing the national security concerns of the Middle East states than the external risk factors. From this point of view, there are no external risk factors such as the interventions of the foreign powers on the region, the critical geographic location of the regional states, religious and ethnic conflicts, problems of water and oil issues, political and social conflicts caused by the infertile political culture and oppressive leaders. Will the internal risk factors, such as the problems generated by the arms race, continue to pose a threat and threat to the security perceptions of Middle Eastern states as separate powers?

The answer to the question is of great importance in the context of the future of Middle Eastern states. If the answer to this question is yes, then the external risk factors will be the secondary elements that indirectly stimulate and intensify the internal risk factors across the Middle East, rather than directly threatening the national security of the Middle East states. For all these reasons, unless the negative impact of security-threatening intrinsic factors is diminished and the necessary independent state policies for these intrinsic elements that constitute a security threat have not been developed, it is likely that these elements will cause serious security problems in the future in the states in the Middle East region.