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The Middle East is experiencing turbulent times. Especially, the threat of the so-called “Islamic State” is dramatically shaking the regional order, created by the interests of the old European colonial states after World War I. Already, previous borders are partially dissolved—the states of Syria and Iraq do not exist in the forms we knew anymore. Classified as “failed states”(Rothberg 2003), their territorial and national unity only exists on paper.
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Gürbey, G., Hofmann, S., Ibrahim Seyder, F. (2017). Introduction: Conceptualizing De Facto Statehood of Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine. In: Gürbey, G., Hofmann, S., Ibrahim Seyder, F. (eds) Between State and Non-State. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60181-0_1
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