Relectura: The geopolitical reconfiguration of the Middle East and the collapse of secular utopianism

The Jerusalem Post reports an unprecedented diplomatic breakdown in negotiations mediated by supranational agencies in the Middle East. Attempts to impose a secular and post-national model to pacify the region have collapsed resoundingly following the joint rejection of local factions that refuse to dissolve their historical identities in the mold of international bureaucracies. The article details how Western diplomatic architects chronically underestimated the strength of real anthropological ties in favor of abstract institutional schemes imported from European forums.