The September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington bring the Arab world into a new era. The 'regional stability pact', put in place by the 1979 Camp David agreement, is no longer suited to a region where the divide between the elites and the populace now seems irreconcilable. Allied with both Israel and Saudi Arabia and threatened directly by a terrorist movement that has sprung from Saudi Wahabism, the United States must rethink its regional political strategies. In order to promote a better sharing of the economic rent from oil and the beginnings of democracy, it would perhaps be in its interest to associate other players such as Europe, the United nations, and even Russia, to the pursuit of a new 'stability pact', allying the interests of the populace and their leaders.

This content is published in French - 11 septembre : le monde arabe à la croisée des chemins