The Middle East's Thirty Years' War?

Author(s): Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2015: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 9-26
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Place: Zurich

The Middle East seems to be on the verge of a New Thirty Years' War' that is characterized by a disintegrating regional order, a contest between secular and religious concepts of domestic and regional politics, and the potential for new and unlikely alliances. What is at stake in 2015 and beyond, in short, is not only the future of the states in the region, but the concept of statehood in the Arab world per se.

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