The Middle East's Thirty Years' War?

Autor(en): Martin Zapfe
Herausgeber: Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Reihenherausgeber: Andreas Wenger
Buchtitel: Strategic Trends 2015: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Serie: Strategic Trends
Seiten: 9-26
Verlag(e): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publikationsjahr: 2015
Publikationsort: Zürich

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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