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The Near East’s costly wrong bets
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As uncertainty engulfs a bleeding Near East, besieged by regional and global powers each pursuing its own agenda, dormant ambitions and sensitivities are waking up and finding the current situation suitable to express themselves.

To begin, such dormant ambitions and suppressed sensitivities would have never emerged had it not been for the huge regional disorder and radical change of international balance of power.

It is true that domestic consensus towards ’national’ identities and boundaries is not guaranteed these days, even in western democracies that values human rights
Posted by: Fred 2017-09-24
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