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<journal-id>2448-654X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Estudios de Asia y África]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Estud. Asia Áfr.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2448-654X</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[El Colegio de México A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2448-654X2021000200265</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24201/eaa.v56i2.2649</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Medio Oriente: inestabilidad y crisis del orden regional]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Middle East: Instability and Crisis of the Regional Order]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Baltar Rodríguez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Enrique]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Quintana Roo  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>56</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>265</fpage>
<lpage>296</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2448-654X2021000200265&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2448-654X2021000200265&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2448-654X2021000200265&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: En las últimas dos décadas, la situación de la seguridad y la estabilidad política en Medio Oriente ha sufrido un grave deterioro que contrasta con la importancia estratégica de la región como motor energético de la economía mundial. El objetivo del presente artículo es aportar un enfoque interpretativo general que contribuya a la explicación de esa contradictoria evolución a partir del análisis de un conjunto de factores exógenos y endógenos que han ejercido de manera primordial, aunque no limitativa, un efecto perturbador sobre el orden regional desde finales del siglo XX y que ayudan a entender las causas del caos geopolítico en que parece inmerso el Medio Oriente en los albores del presente siglo.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: In the last two decades, the security situation and political stability in the Middle East has significantly worsened, in contrast with its strategic importance as the global economy&#8217;s energy engine. This article offers a general interpretative perspective to help explain this contradictory evolution from the analysis of a set of exogenous and endogenous factors that have exerted a fundamental, although not limiting, effect on the regional order since the end of the last century, and to elucidate the causes of the Middle East&#8217;s apparent geopolitical chaos at the dawn of this century.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[geopolítica]]></kwd>
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