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The collapse of national sovereignty in the Middle East
['Paul R. Pillar', 'Paul R. Pillar Is Non-Resident Senior Fellow At The Center For Security Studies Of Georgetown University', 'A Non-Resident Fellow At The Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft. He Is Also An Associate Fellow Of The Geneva Center For Security Policy.']
Responsible Statecraft
The Middle East has come to look like—to borrow a phrase from the seventeenth century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes —a war of all against all.
But the Middle East currently stands out, especially in ways relevant to U.S. policy.
But cross-border violence in the Middle East today is not protecting human rights and, in many cases, constitutes an offense against human rights.
In the contemporary Middle East, there is animosity between Shia and Sunni and, insofar as Israel is concerned, Jewish nationalism .
It is true as well of some of the U.S. military interventions in the Middle East, including the current one.