Abstract
For years it was common practice to refer to the Middle East and the Arab world as if these terms were synonymous. This is no longer true. Of course the Middle East is home to 300 million Arabs, and most of the countries in the Middle East are Arab. The Arabs are the predominant ethnic group in the Middle East, and this will always be the case. However, politically, the Middle East is no longer synonymous with the Arab world in the sense that Arab countries set the regional agenda. Today the Middle Eastern agenda is set by various, primarily non-Arab, countries, such as the US and the other non-Arab Middle Eastern players: Iran, Turkey and Israel. In fact, these three Middle Eastern states together exert more influence than all the Arab states combined.
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