No Clean Hands: The Interventions of Middle Eastern Powers, 2010-2020 - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

No Clean Hands: The Interventions of Middle Eastern Powers, 2010-2020 - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: Instability in the Middle East has often been blamed on a single expansionist U.S. opponent, whether that be Libya, Iraq, or Iran. However, a qualitative and quantitative view of the region’s conflicts over the past 10 years shows several states to be interventionist to roughly the same degree, contradicting the argument that regional instability is primarily caused by a single “malign actor.”