Might South Sudan, the mostly Christian state that seceded in 2011 from the Muslim Arab North after a long civil war, become the new paradigm for non-historical Arab states riven by ethnic and tribal rivalries? As former Prime Minister of China Zhou Enlai supposedly said of the impact of the French Revolution, “It is too early to tell.”
2011年，以基督徒为多数的南苏丹在长期内战后脱离穆斯林阿拉伯国家苏丹独立，这会是没有历史的阿拉伯国家因种族和部落对峙而分裂的新范式吗？据说中国前总理周恩来曾评论法国革命的影响“下结论为时尚早”，中东亦是如此。但毫无疑问，中东后殖民地时代的现状是不稳定的。这个多层次的地区还没有形成明确的政治结构。