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Rice and Israeli Prime Minister E. Olmert in Tel-Aviv, Israel welcomed
the new US-proposed concept, and Rice announced that the new concept
would become a guarantor of the Middle East rebirth. In reality, howev-
er, the “New Middle East” concept created the so-called “constructive or
controlling chaos” in the region that would give the United States a new
opportunity to interfere in the aff airs of these countries.
One of the authors of the theory of “constructive or controlled chaos”
is S. Mann, according to whom in order to control this or that country
there is absolutely no need to fi ght, but to create a chaotic situation. With-
in the framework of the chaotic situation-making tool, Mann suggests to
support democracy in the target country, to support market reforms in the
economy, to start activities on perception of upgrading the population’s
living standards, to annihilate traditional values and ideologies. 30 These
key points were put on the revised American concept of Rice.
Actually, the theory of “controlled chaos” was a kind of new ideolog-
ical weapon, which could provide the US supremacy in diff erent conti-
nents.
An integral component to the theory of “controlled chaos” can be con-
sidered the project on Future Boundaries of Greater Middle East States
proposed in 2007 by Ralph Peters, the former lieutenant colonel of the
US National Military Academy. The project was fi rst shown by Peters
in an article titled “Bloody Borders” released in the Armed Forces Jour-
nal. 31 According to the Peters plan, in order to control the national wealth
of the Middle East, fi rst of all, energy carriers, it is necessary to create a
chain of non-viable, densely populated dwarf states, so said “to somalize”
the Middle East. 32 Peters notes that it is necessary to create a wave of in-
stability, chaos and violence in the region that will start from Lebanon,
involving Palestine, Syria, Gulf Arab countries, Iran and reach Afghani-
stan. 33
Analyzing the theory proposed by Peters, one can conclude that it is a
“roadmap” for specifi c actions that secures the absolute dominance of the
US-Israeli alliance in the Middle East. 34
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Ibid.
Ralph Peters, “Blood borders, How a better Middle East would look,” Armed Forces Jour-
nal, June 1, 2006, http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1833899 (accessed Septem-
ber 26, 2006).
Nikolay Sologubovskiy, “Somalization plus Qatarization,” March 8, 2012, http://trueinform.
ru/modules.php?name=News&fi le=article&sid=3671,Some of the Eastern experts believe
that the so-called Middle East unity should be smooth and global, and not spontaneous, since
the political and economic situation in the countries of the given region varies. It is also nec-
essary to take into account the social, cultural and educational levels in those countries.
Ralph Peters, “Blood borders, How a better Middle East would look.”
Ibid
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