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Over the past four years,political changes in the Middle East have always appeared to be unexpected and dazzling.Anti-govment Arab Spring movements against strongman politics broke out in 2011;political Islam gained power through elections in Tunisia and Egypt in 2012;an Egyptian military coup occurred in 2013;and in 2014 the Islamic State sprung up in Iraq and Syria.All these seemingly irrational episodes in fact share an inherent logical relationship.Looking ahead to 2015,there is no end in sight to the military conflicts currently rife in the Middle East.This includes civil wars such as those in Iraq,Syria,and Libya,and the Yemen and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.There is no hope for improvement for those countries currently under enormous political pressure in govance,including Egypt and the Arab monarchies.As such,in 2015,the Middle East,still struggling to get out of the woods,will remain the darkest and most chaotic place in the world.