CRISIS, CONFLICTS AND REGIONAL INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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The events of the past two decades have reinforced the image of the Middle East as a highly volatile and unstable area. The regional evolution after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 seems to have followed the course of a parable of chaos, where the point of arrival describes a more complex and convulsive scenario than the
one that existed at the time of departure. The old unresolved regional conflicts, such as those in Palestine and Afghanistan, were joined by new crisis scenarios in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya, which have significantly shocked the regional context, generating humanitarian tragedies of enormous proportions, with high costs in civilian lives, widespread human rights violations and massive flows of refugees and internally displaced persons, a situation that has greatly reaffirmed the Middle East as the main expulsion center for people due
to armed conflicts.
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