Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Helle Malmvig and Eduard Soler i Lecha, Interregnum: The Regional Order in the Middle East and North Africa after 2011, February 2019
This report contends that the Middle East regional order since 2011 has changed in several ways. This is evidenced by the decline in US power, the rise of sectarianism, the growing influence of non-state actors, the return of Arab state permeability, intensified rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the emergence of regional players such as Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and the fluidity of alliances. However, these and other changes constitute a change within order, rather than of order.
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