The long-term implications of the Iran war will be a shift in geopolitics, with the decline of Western dominance in West Asia and new regional coalitions.

Peace is more than the absence of combat between warring parties. Cicero defined it as ’liberty in tranquility’, a condition in which states and peoples do not use violence against each other to pursue their inherently incompatible goals. There has been no such peace in West Asia since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.

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