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There are two basic interstate ideological breaches in the Middle East. One is the division between ‘pan-Islamists’ and ‘pan-Arabists’ that overlaps but does not neatly coincide with the second cleavage between ‘conservatives’ and ‘radicals’. These two fractures have been highly penetrated by external influences, attracted by the geostrategic location of the region, its straits and waterways, its petroleum resources and the richness of its history and civilisation.
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© 1997 Naji Abi-Aad and Michel Grenon
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Abi-Aad, N., Grenon, M. (1997). Interstate Ideological Cleavages. In: Instability and Conflict in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378070_3
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