In NATO’s Southern flank, the general picture is quite bleak. There is a general failure of governance as the Eastern Mediterranean and its adjoining regions remain an extremely turbulent and unstable neighborhood, where the security environment continues to be “Hobbesian”. The list of, frequently interacting, problems is very long indeed: civil conflicts; the emergence of fragile, unstable, dysfunctional … Continue reading Commentary by Thanos Dokos for ISPI: “Contested Mediterranean? NATO’s Maritime Role Amid Shifting Balances”