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A new smart era for the Middle East Even though for many decades the nature of the post-Cold War polarity was a topic of dispute, nowadays hardly anyone denies that humanity is experiencing a multipolar systemic condition. More than two great powers – i.e. the US, China and Russia – compete against and antagonize each other under the constant reminder of the mutually assured destruction (MAD) doctrine. Multipolarity feeds systemic antagonism between the main protagonists in the international arena, but the MAD doctrine guarantees that this friction cannot culminate in a nuclear military confrontation. Thus, conventional military friction becomes popular...
