Do the region’s crises stem from the lack of peace with Israel? Or is some combination of other factors – boiling frustration with the regional economic order, for example, or a US intervention that turned Sunni-led Iraq into the Arab world’s lonely, Shia-led black sheep – at its root?
与东亚不同，中东仍是一个动荡之地，其复杂性之巨导致了根本无法形成一致的分析意见。该地区的危机源于不能与以色列和平共处吗？还是其他因素的综合效应在作祟——比如对地区经济秩序的民怨沸腾以及美国的干预导致逊尼派领导的伊拉克成为阿拉伯世界孤立无援的什叶派领导的另类国家？