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Traditionally the Middle East is considered a region so complex that it does not allow a clear political narrative on its political and strategic priorities : it is an explication but also an excuse for short sighted crisis management and inaction. This conference, where the NATO Defense College Foundation has brought together an exceptional array of regional practitioners in a very critical period of the region, has dispelled this and other myths. Firstly it has demonstrated that cooperation is possible in such a diverse and fragmented environment because the different cultures and components of the area have never ceased to reflect in a very critical way about the past and the present. Political short-term interests can be divergent, but there is a common understanding that has been accelerated by the jolt of the Arab Revolutions : change is necessary, inevitable and even manageable despite serious obstacles. Secondly, cultural distinctions, often portrayed as unsurmountable and unintelligible religious gaps, have once more being revealed as very concrete power and political differences. As often since a century, war, in its different and changing facets, has been deemed as the great problem-solver, and yet the conference proceedings show that there is a strong opportunity and advantage in pursuing negotiated solutions. Thirdly, all participants sensed that the age of the great, all-encompassing and almost never-ending interventions is over. All actors understand that the best contribution to regional stability is supporting endogenous and consensual change in a sensible way. NATO's cooperative security can offer useful tools in a meaningful way to the entire region.

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