Future of the Greater Middle East

... asserted with reasonable assurance that there are two main scenarios of how the situation in the GME region will develop in future. For purposes of the discussion they may be referred to as the Versailles (by analogy with the “re-division of Europe” ... ... 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,...