Strategic Abstract High-Priority Warning: The Middle East’s state restoration is a pragmatic tourniquet on anarchy, not a renewed social contract. Absent structural reforms, economic shocks or proxy reconstitutions could snap it. The image of Islamic State militants bulldozing the Iraq-Syria berm in 2014 symbolized an assault on the post-Ottoman order. Yet by 2026, those lines … Leggi tutto The Revenge of the State in the Middle East – Sovereign Resilience, Westphalian Rebirth & Fragile Equilibrium 2026