'A regional institution'
Posted Tuesday 30 November, 14:51 GMT
Adam Ward, IISS Director of Studies, describes how the Manama Dialogue may resemble a conference but is in fact better thought of as a ‘de facto regional security institution’ with all of the advantages of formal inter-governmental meetings but none of the drawbacks. At the Manama Dialogue a ‘more flexible, pragmatic and businesslike approach’ prevails and the ritualistic feel of other inter-governmental institutional meetings is avoided.
