Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Oğuz DİLEK

Konular:Sosyal

DOI:10.33458/uidergisi.553300

Anahtar Kelimeler:Security Community,Arab Spring,Middle East,Israel,Iran

Özet: The main purpose of this paper is to problematize whether a Middle Eastern Security Community has ever gone further than a utopian mirage. Accordingly, it is inferred that a regional security community builds upon, at least, two antecedent conditions. The needed, but not sufficient precondition arrives when the peoples of a region re-imagine their security geography beyond its territorialisation among the scattered islands of nation states. Sufficient condition is then the presence of strong regional states with ideological appeal and material resources so as to build the first momentum towards a communal sense of security. This paper argues that the Arab Spring mostly met the first condition. The communal waves, at least briefly, united Arab people divided across the borders of multitude of states. But this short-lived ‘spring’ was not quite enough to forge a path from which the region could progress along the said direction. Whereas the classical cores of strength in the Arab world (Syria, Egypt and Iraq) are currently on the edge of an ultimate collapse; two non-Arab states (Israel and Iran) seem unwilling to cover this emergent power void.

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