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THE MENA REGION: A GREAT POWER COMPETITION
Over the last few years, a crisis of legitimacy has beset the liber-al orientation of the post-bipolar world order, which has been reflected in the strain on the multilateral fabric of internation-al coexistence, the functioning of international organizations, and even the institutions of individual states. Most recently, in particular, the signs of disintegration of the international order have multiplied. A sense of global withdrawal of the United States has contributed to the weakening of the international or-der created at the end of World War II also and definitively con-solidated at the end of the Cold War. Furthermore, the growing power of China and the renewed assertiveness of Russia seem to be a prelude to a new phase of depreciation of Western impact on the rest of the world, if not the opening of a great compe-tition for the redistribution of power and international status.