Yannis A. Stivachtis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His research interests include the evolution of international society, the study of regional international society, conditionality and international order, international society and the civilizing process, and European international society and global order.
How can state-society relations explain the regional instability in the Middle East? It has been argued (Holsti 1996 & 1991) that war in the post-Cold War era has different sources…