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International and regional observers agree that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is experiencing one of the most difficult times it has seen in the past two decades, where a combination of internal and external factors are creating a “state of un-certainty” regarding the future. Questions and concerns abound about how the state, with its various institutions, will address the challenges and threats facing Jordan and its citizens. 

The conference will cover the following topics:

• The most defining and important features of Jordan’s changing regional and international environment, and how Jordan might readjust its regional and international strategic approaches to restore its regional role.
• Options available for Jordan to manage the tensions that arise from its reliance on the US as its largest ally on the one hand and US policies toward the Palestinians on the other, bearing in mind the threats such policies hold to Jordan’s national security, social peace, and national identity.
• The predominant characteristics of Jordanian-Israeli relations twenty-five years after the peace treaty and how might the present nature of such relations and evolving developments regarding Israel’s internal politics and its positions on the Palestinian cause and the peace process impact future relations.

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