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Belfer Center experts debate the strategic weight of the Mecca Agreement

·Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center
A multi-expert assessment presents competing readings of the pact: middle-power security diversification and complementary capabilities on one side, and doubts about its practical military value on the other. The contributors broadly identify strategic autonomy, defence-industrial cooperation and regional security provision as more durable tests than the 'Islamic NATO' label.
Strategic assessmentMiddle powersStrategic autonomyDefence cooperationSaudi ArabiaPakistanTürkiye
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