Future of the Greater Middle East

... (particularly, about the division of the Arab domains of the Ottoman Empire) with the outside forces taking the lead, whereas the 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, proved to be fraught with the danger that the region is now likely to turn to Islamism, rather than to democracy. Many in ...