Sectarian Games: Sovereign Power, War Machines and Regional Order in the Middle East

Pensée 3: A Sectarian Middle East?

The Future of Sectarian Relations in the Middle East

S ectarianism—particularly the Sunni-Shi‘a variant1—is a prominent feature of the Middle East landscape. From the civil wars raging in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, to regional competition between Iran and Saudi Arabia, to governing strategies in religiously mixed countries, sectarianism is shaping regional developments. Sectarianism, which is difficult to measure or separate from other factors with ...

The Regional Context of Human Rights in the Middle East

Human rights situation in the Middle East (ME) is a central concern in contemporary political as well as academic discourses. There is a considerable amount of literature on the subject, both academic and journalistic, in the Western world. A large part of that literature blames the ME in different ways for its ‘terrible’ conception and treatment of human rights norms. They typically, do not he...

The Middle East: Evolution of a Broken Regional Order

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The "Poly-Nuclear" Middle East and the Cold War Paradigm