The New World Order and the Prospect of Peace in the Middle East

The study focuses on the New World Order (NOW) and the prospects of peace in the Middle East. The objective of the study is to explore the position of the Middle East in the NOW, the process that led to conflict and the means by which peace could be achieved. By peace we do not mean only the absence of violent conflict, but a contractual agreement between the parties agreeing to end the war. Conditions promoting or impeding the prospects of peace do not stand still but evolve dynamically as generated by the cold war era and now New World Order. The paper concludes that the issue of peace making concerns not only the state at war, but other actors in the international arena as well especially the big powers. Hence, the question raised in this study is, whether Israel in the emergence of a NOW and the prospect of peace in the Middle East? This question is imperative because the emergence of a NOW which followed the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the last decade of the 20^thc, has given rise to significant development in the way nations relate with each other in the international system on the one hand, a “Unipolar” situation on the other, and the way various social groups perceive the change process itself. The study recommends among others that western nations should be careful in imposing on the rest of the world those values which may have worked within the cultural milieu of America and Europe. While the United Nations should effectively checkmate a messianic ‘sword in the hand’ the study adopts historical methodology through the application of primary and secondary data