The Future of the Middle East: Horizons of Challenges and Opportunities

... an increase in the tax burden on the population can result in a new wave of protests and opposition political movements. Positive alternatives to the region’s energy future are based on the potential contribution of the renewables to total primary energy in North Africa (Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia), as well as in Turkey. It is possible on the basis of large-scale attraction of external sources of financing and advanced Western technologies. The authors also believe that energy diversification will require ...