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Abstract
Proxy relationships between non-state challengers and their external state patrons in the Middle East are a factor that can weaken regional stability as non-state proxies become both a tool and a decisive factor in shaping inter-state competition between regional powers. As a result, non-state actors with regional influence must increasingly be factored into policy decisions in military, diplomatic and legal terms.
Acknowledgements
This article was adapted from the chapter “Proxy Agents: State and Non-State Alliances in the Middle East” of the book The Frailty of Authority: Borders, Non-State Actors and Power Vacuums in a Changing Middle East, edited by Lorenzo Kamel (Rome: Edizioni Nueva Cultura, 2017). The author would like to thank Emiliano Alessandri, Benedetta Berti, Lorenzo Kamel and Mark N. Katz for their valuable comments during the drafting process.