Middle East: Political Configuration (The Second Half of the 1950s - 1960s)
The advantageous geopolitical configuration and availability of oil resources predetermined the importance of the Middle East region in world politics. The Middle East still remained object of rivalry of world powers in the conditions of the post-war period. The solution of interstate, interethnic problems of a regional nature was often broken about mutual distrust and dissimilarity of the political principles and methods of the countries of the region.