CUNY Brooklyn College Distinctive characteristics of Middle East Paper

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What are the defining characteristics of the Middle East? b) Does it make sense to treat MENA as a region? Why/why not?

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The Distinctive characteristics of Middle East

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The Distinctive characteristics of Middle East

Abstract
This paper focuses on the regional variation that highlights the various factors that
identify and distinguish the Middle East countries and regions from the rest of the World that
is used to explain its developments and the ultimate changes over time. The Arabic Country's
classification and the factors that shape the outcomes of their politico-economic
developments that led to the Advancement of the Middle East are described. The economic
performances have since grown from the import substitutional model in the early 1960s to the
current export promotion model after the 1990s (Cammett. et al, 2015). The economic growth
and development of the Middle East and North Africa region are defined with various
development strategies put in place ranging from structural modifications and the period of
uprising import substitution and state activisms. The political transition from the Ottoman
affiliations to the modern Middle East political organization. The demographic development
and the defining policies in the regions with the Islamic religion doctrines contribution to the
population growth of these areas are also discussed as distinguishing characteristics. Further,
MENA is classified as a region as it vastly unites various countries with similar religions but
integrated economic backgrounds. The government organizations of these regions are also a
cohesive factor for MENA region classification.

Introduction
The Near East, Fertile Crescent, and the Levant are famous geographic concepts
describing the Middle East. The Greater Middle East covering the Middle East and North
Africa that includes the Maghreb Sudan, Djibouti Afghanistan, Comoros Pakistan, and the
Transcaucasia majorly the central Asia countries. The Middle East is a generally hot, arid

climatic region with various rivers supplying water for irrigations to supplement agriculture.
Along with limited areas such as the Nile Delta, the Tigris Euphrates Rivers, irrigation
schemes serve the areas of Iraq, Kuwait, and eastern Syria regions. The Middle East and
North African is an Oil driven economy (Cammett and Diwan, 2016). The phenomenal rise
of the Gulf Cooperation Council is at the center stage in controlling the oil business that
contributes to almost two-thirds of the Arabic country's Gross Domestic Products. The region
established coercive political institutions that have contributed to the massive durability of
the authoritarian governance that that resembles the ancient Arabic uprisings. The Islamic
faith and religion is a pillar of the political economy in the region. Islam is a social movement
that shapes social welfare, electoral contests, and political behavior in the region.

Physical characteristics
The Middle East is distinctively divided into the northern third of the region, which
includes Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and Cyprus, which also includes the Anatolians ad
Iranian plateaus that are enclosed in the fold mountain ranges. The Iranian plateaus stretch
widely and only separated by the mountain in the Iran and Afghanistan Border however, the
Anatolian plateau is more broken and small. The southern region is a full stretched plateau
that includes the Arabian Peninsula and the African Sahara region (Gherboudj. et al, 2017).
The region is, however, divided by the Great Rift Valley that surpasses the Northern Syrian
passed Jordan Valley and the Red sea to the Central African region. The Middle East is vastly
enclosed into Mountains on either side of the Great Rift Valley in the Northern mountain
series. These mountains hence inhibit proper cultivation and hence the dominant economic
and social structure of the Middle East and North Africa is mainly Aridity. The region is
located along the desert belt hence receives little rainfall except for the equatorials regions of

Africa, extreme northern and the southern of the Black sea, and the Caspian Sea that receives
heavy rainfall with dense forests.
Social features
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