ABSTRACT
The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty-five years ago solidified the spread of peace on most of the European continent. This peace emerged first in West Europe in the aftermath of WWII, evolving into what I’ll call here “warm peace,” which has spread after the end of the Cold War into the central-eastern part of the continent. Post-WWII Middle East, in contrast, suffered from quite a few wars; only in the late 1970s, a cold peace emerged between two major antagonists – Egypt and Israel, while cold war, interrupted by episodes of violence, including low-intensity or asymmetric warfare, has continued to dominate large parts of the region.
