During the Cold War, nation-states thrived throughout the Middle East, but the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 ushered in an era of intense instability across the Third World. A prime example was the founding of the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, a result of the U.S. intervention following Baghdad’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Fragmentation […]
The Return of the Nation-State in the Middle East
China’s rise on the global stage could give the region a chance to recover after years of turmoil.
