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Volker Perthes

Director of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). Jeffrey Feltman & Stefan De Mistura advisor at the United Nations.

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No order, no hegemon. The Middle East in flux

by Volker Perthes

Munich (Germanay) | 16 February 2017

For decades, at least through the Cold War and into the US-led invasion of Iraq, the Middle East formed a highly conflicted, but rather durable “regional security complex” (Barry Buzan). It was defined by the geopolitical conflict between East and West, the region’s oil-dependent political (...)