ISTANBUL – Conflict in the Middle East threatens not only the security of many of its states, but also their continued existence. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and others, now gripped by sectarian fighting, risk fragmenting into ethnic sub-states, transforming a region whose political geography was drawn nearly a century ago.
伊斯坦布尔—中东的冲突不仅威胁着该地区诸多国家的安全，也威胁着它们的生存。叙利亚、伊拉克、黎巴嫩和其他国家目前无不保守宗派之争困扰，有可能依民族分裂为多个小国，改变这个政治地理形成于近一百年前的地区。