Future of the Greater Middle East

... second case implies sustained and painful process of “self-development” of a democratic commonwealth of national states. Versailles Matrix The change of elites, followed, as any revolution, by steep social and economic expectations of the population,... ... likely to turn to Islamism, rather than to democracy. Many in the West, especially, at the initial stage, paralleled the “Arab spring” to the events in the Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s – beginning of the 1990s. To a certain extent, the ...