OAR@UM Collection:https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/465512026-06-25T09:29:43Z2026-06-25T09:29:43ZShifting geopolitics in the Arab World 1945-2017https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/465672019-09-22T05:11:18Z2018-02-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Shifting geopolitics in the Arab World 1945-2017
Abstract: Almost a century after the end the Ottoman domination of the Middle
East and North Africa, and after many decades of independence
from Western colonial rule, the Arab Region is far from being peaceful,
integrated, prosperous and democratic. Worse, after the watershed
events starting in 2011, dubbed as “Arab Spring”, many States are
either unstable or simply in shambles, and the old Arab political “order”
is collapsing while the new geopolitical landscape is marred by a
chaotic shift of alliances, proxy wars and sectarian violence. If in the
past 75 years, we had some sort of a “regional Arab system”, today we
have a “region without a system”, where non-state actors are filling the
vacuum left open by weakened Arab States’ power system and where
non-Arab countries like Israel, Iran and Turkey are gaining ground, clout
and influence.2018-02-01T00:00:00Z