In the Middle East, specifically the Arab World, the polycrisis does not only show up as volatility, shocks, or price spikes. It becomes structural when emergency measures stop being temporary and evolve into emergency normality, a governance mode in which force overrules policy, and decisions migrate away from long horizon institutions towards coercive security logics, short term survival measures, and rent managed stabilization.

This track treats “the day after in the region” not as a return to stability, but as an uncomfortable question: what kind of future gets locked in when emergency becomes the operating system? The two sessions examine two reinforcing layers of the same trajectory: The first session is about energy and water, when security risks, financing constraints, and disruption threats dominate planning; the second session is about the political cost, as conflict and political coercive practices normalize, states and societies start paying an increasing price of inaction.