And yet the Middle East is also a region that, throughout its innumerable conflicts, has hardly changed, languishing in a strange kind of standstill. There must be an intrinsic correlation between the lack of developmental dynamism of most Middle Eastern societies and the fact that the region is so crisis-prone.
然而，也正是中东这样一个地区，经过了无数的冲突后，几乎没有发生任何变化，至今仍在一种怪异的停滞不前的状态中煎熬。大部分的中东地区的社会缺乏发展的活力，而且该地区是如此容易发生危机，这两者之间一定存在着内在的联系。