The nationalist regimes thus gradually lost domestic popular legitimacy, creating a vacuum that non-state actors have now largely filled. The ideological forces and the currency of power have also changed, with political Islam replacing secularism while skillfully integrating social issues and revolutionary, anti-Western nationalism.
这些国家主义政权也因此逐渐丧失了在国内民意中的合法性，由此造成的真空现在很大程度上由非国家实体填补了。意识形态力量和权力潮流的方向也发生了变化，政治伊斯兰教取代了世俗主义，并将社会问题和革命性的反西方民族主义进行有效的整合。