Conditions for Winning Wars: Peace Performances of the Middle Eastern and North African Nations

This paper is a theory oriented research that seeks to generalise the peace performance scenario of Middle East and North African nations, by examining different conditions in which the states of the region win or fail. For this, it scrutinises states’ performance in terms of three basic domains—ongoing domestic and international conflict, societal safety and security, and the militarisation—that are chosen from Global Peace Index (GPI) reports where state-specific performance in every domain and all other relevant data are contained. By applying cross-nation comparative method and different kinds of statistical operations, the paper finds that lack of security is the core crisis of this region. However, the best and highly progressive performers of the region have good performance in conflict domain and have a favourable control over the conditions of security. But due to their bad performance in the domain of militarisation, they fall to be globally lagging in the GPI ranking. On the other hand, in spite of the worst performance in security which is caused mainly by their comparatively bad performance in conflict domain, the least and highly deteriorative performers show a better performance in the domain of militarization which implies that such countries have the potential to secure, for themselves, a globally progressed ranking in GPI evaluation, if they can continue the making of such progress in this domain