2. The shattered belt “Globalization is allowing the “ shattered belt” recover its organic wholeness..” Shattered belt = Middle East A 2nd world country because it has the following resource: Natural Money Labor Talent to defend itself
3. Egypt:Between Bureaucrats and theocrats “Western policy of prizing stability over democracy has become a cliché, for such stability never last more then a generation and culminates in instability .”
4. The former Iraq:Buffer, black hole, and broken boundary Iraq cannot be considered part of the 3rd world Poor country but they have sufficient oil Kurds: Region in Iraq Indo-European people speaking Indo-Iranian language
5. Iran:Virtues and vices “ Yet Iran’s goals have traditionally not been military but rather strategic independence from great powers.”
