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Issues of international transformation seem to top current agendas — both political and academic. Images imprinted on the minds of TV spectators, glued to their screens to watch the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union ‘without war’1 bring issues of international change to the forefront of our attention.2 Our political as well as our conceptual categories need to be rethought. Did not the Gulf War announce a ‘new world order’, and did not the 1993 Oslo agreement between Israelis and Palestinians announce a new regional one?
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Korany, B. (1997). The Old/New Middle East. In: Guazzone, L. (eds) The Middle East in Global Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25526-9_7
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