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The Middle East and geopolitics

Lydia Khalil

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Today's Middle East is characterised by instability and conflict in the form of the geopolitics of oil, prevalence of extremist groups, Western military intervention, escalating Sunni-Shia tensions, and the Arab Spring. According to US-based counterterrorism expert Lydia Khalil, who spoke to defence analyst Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe, the Middle East is in a period of rapid and substantial change and is headed for an uncertain future that will continue to affect world geopolitics.

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Key concepts: Geopolitics, Middle East, Political science, Intervention (counseling), Spring (device), Development economics, Ancient history, Geography