As global and regional powers seek to address the plethora of crises across the NEASFram region in an incremental fashion, security continues to break down and in each situation the prospect of a secure political settlement grows dimmer.

From the fracturing of Palestine into separately controlled Gaza and the West Bank to the spiralling violence in Iraq to the rise of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the prospects of human security across the region seem to dim by the day.

It is critical that the UNSG and other global leaders start to consider an integrated approach to addressing these interlocked crises before we are faced with a cluster of failed states throughout the NEASFram region.