{"id":244076,"date":"2025-12-01T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/?p=244076"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:48:10","slug":"the-middle-east-in-search-of-a-new-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/the-middle-east-in-search-of-a-new-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle East in Search of a New Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after October 7, 2023, the Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation. The devastation in Gaza and the collapse of the two-state solution have accelerated a redefinition of regional power dynamics, affecting every state in the region. Israel is more isolated yet increasingly assertive; Iran, weakened by the decline of its regional allies, is forced to recalibrate its strategy; Syria and Lebanon remain suspended between fragile sovereignty and new dependencies; and the Gulf monarchies are turning inward, intent on safeguarding their domestic agendas.<\/p>\n<p>These shifts are the focus of\u00a0<em>Reset<\/em>\u2019s new dossier. Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara traces the logic of the U.S. peace plan and warns against the risk of an \u201carmistice without a solution.\u201d Former Israeli minister Yuli Tamir and political scientist Olivier Roy examine the limits and ambiguities of the agreement\u2014from the Hamas question and the erosion of Palestinian civil society to the prospects for peaceful coexistence. Pegah Zohouri analyzes Iran\u2019s strategic dilemmas and the crisis of the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d while journalist Riccardo Cristiano explores the fragile balance between Syria and Lebanon after Assad\u2019s fall and Hezbollah\u2019s retrenchment. Geopolitical analyst Luca Marin considers how the Gulf states, through their Vision programs and emerging security architectures, aim to preserve their paths to modernization. Finally, Turkish dissident Cengiz Aktar reflects on Ankara\u2019s role in shaping the region\u2019s new order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after October 7, 2023, the Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation. The devastation in Gaza and the collapse of the two-state solution have accelerated a redefinition of regional power dynamics, affecting every state in the region. Israel is more isolated yet increasingly assertive; Iran, weakened by the decline of its regional allies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punti-di-vista"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244077,"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244076\/revisions\/244077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mppu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}